Please all, and you will please none.

No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

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

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

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.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

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

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste

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

Advertising is legalized lying.

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure