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

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day of your life.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

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

Great companies are built on great products.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal

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

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste

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

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

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.