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.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic

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.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal

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.

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

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

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

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...

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them I did it myself.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.