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.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

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.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears.

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it