No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
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.
Nothing will work unless you do.
Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
He who thinks little errs much
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.
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.
It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country
