I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Only you can control your future.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

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

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.

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

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fake it until you make it.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

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.

The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.

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

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