I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

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.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.

As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Listen if you want to be heard

All my life I've had one dream, to achieve my many goals.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

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.

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

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.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

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.