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.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Great companies are built on great products.

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.

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

He who thinks little errs much

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.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Dont make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people cant take their eyes off of you.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.

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.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

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

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

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