I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible'.

Great companies are built on great products.

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

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

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

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

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

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.

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.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

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

Good things happen to those who hustle.

It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

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.