From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

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

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.

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

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

Percentages are why I am rich.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves

Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

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

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

You can't make souffle rise twice.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

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