Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

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

I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.'

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

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.

Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.

Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

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.

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.

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

Percentages are why I am rich.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

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.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

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.

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

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.