Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!

It is better to serve like steel than rust and wither away like iron.

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

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

Be quick, but don't hurry.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

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.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

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

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

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

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

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.