If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

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.

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

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Advertising is legalized lying.

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

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

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

I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.'

It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?