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.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

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.

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.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment

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

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

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

I`d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Genius is eternal patience.

It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.