It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Well done is better than well said.

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.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

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.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

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?

Only you can control your future.

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

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

If youre in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.