You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

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

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

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

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

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another....

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

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.

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

It is better to serve like steel than rust and wither away like iron.