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.

There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

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

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Success in life depends on action, that is, on what you do, and not what you Feel or think, and the price of success is hard work.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

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

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone

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.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Genius is eternal patience.

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

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.

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

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.