Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
You reach a point where you don't work for money.
If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
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.
A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
If your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world.
Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
Great companies are built on great products.
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.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.
The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice
Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.
Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.
