Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

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

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

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

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

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic

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

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

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

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.

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.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.