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.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country

What one has to do usually can be done.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

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

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

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.

The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

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

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

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

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves