If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

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

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

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...

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

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

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

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!

Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?

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

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

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.