Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.
You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.
I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.
Vision without execution is just hallucination.
Please all, and you will please none.
Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.
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.
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.
The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.
Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.
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.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
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.
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine