A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another....

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

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.

What one has to do usually can be done.

You can't make souffle rise twice.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal

There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things

It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

You can observe a lot just by watching.

He who thinks little errs much

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

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

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.