It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

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

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

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

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

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.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

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

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

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

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

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.

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

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.