We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

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

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

If youre in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

Percentages are why I am rich.

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

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.

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.

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.

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

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.