There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

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.

This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

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

What one has to do usually can be done.

Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.

Advertising is legalized lying.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Genius is eternal patience.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.

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.