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

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

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.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

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

You can't make souffle rise twice.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

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

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.

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

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Great companies are built on great products.