Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

If your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it

It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.

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

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

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

Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.