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

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

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

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

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight

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

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

Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them

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.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

You can't make souffle rise twice.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

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.