The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.
Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.
Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.
Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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.
There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.
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.
It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.
Change yourself and your work will seem different.
Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
Vision without execution is just hallucination.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
