Please all, and you will please none.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It s courage that counts.

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

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.

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

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

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

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

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