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

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

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

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

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

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

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.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Great companies are built on great products.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

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.