If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.

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

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.

All my life I've had one dream, to achieve my many goals.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

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

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

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.

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

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

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.