To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
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.
Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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.
For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
It is better to serve like steel than rust and wither away like iron.
Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
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.
To those whom much is given, much is expected.
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.
