Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.

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

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.

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

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

Only you can control your future.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

The destination of the seeker… depends on the road he takes.

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.

Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.

Great companies are built on great products.

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.