Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

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.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

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

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

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

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

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.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

Percentages are why I am rich.

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another....

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.