Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

I`d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

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

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves

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

What one has to do usually can be done.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Listen if you want to be heard

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.

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.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

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

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

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.

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.