Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

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

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

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.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

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?

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

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

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

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

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

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

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

It is better to serve like steel than rust and wither away like iron.