Genius is eternal patience.

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

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Be quick, but don't hurry.

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

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.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure

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.

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

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

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail.

But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.