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

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

You can observe a lot just by watching.

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

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.

When things go wrong don't go with them

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

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

Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Percentages are why I am rich.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

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

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

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

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

Fake it until you make it.

Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...