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

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them I did it myself.

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.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It s courage that counts.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

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

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

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....

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

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

You can't make souffle rise twice.

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

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

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

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

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...