By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

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

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

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

Only you can control your future.

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

Well done is better than well said.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

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.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

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

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.