I am easily satisfied with the very best.
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.
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...
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
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....
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible'.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Percentages are why I am rich.
I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing
If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
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.
Great companies are built on great products.
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?
Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.