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...

A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.

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

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

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.

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

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

Fake it until you make it.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

You can't make souffle rise twice.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment

Well done is better than well said.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.