Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

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

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.

If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

He who thinks little errs much

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

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

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there