Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic

If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...