If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.

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.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

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

In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game!

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

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

Be quick, but don't hurry.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

Great companies are built on great products.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...

There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.

Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.