I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.
One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears.
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
Listen if you want to be heard
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.
The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.
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.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
