Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Percentages are why I am rich.

Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.

What one has to do usually can be done.

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

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

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.

Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

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

Genius is eternal patience.

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing

If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there