Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

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.

Be quick, but don't hurry.

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

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become

Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.

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.

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

It is better to serve like steel than rust and wither away like iron.

Percentages are why I am rich.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste

He who thinks little errs much

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.'