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

The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

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

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.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.

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.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

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.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

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

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

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

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.