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

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.

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

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

Fake it until you make it.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

The finest task for an Engineer – to survey, to plan, to suggest resources and material, assemble them for task in hand, implement and produce results.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

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

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...

This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

Percentages are why I am rich.