If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Please all, and you will please none.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

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.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

Genius is eternal patience.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

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

The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.