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

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

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

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

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

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.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

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

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

It is better to serve like steel than rust and wither away like iron.

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

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

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

Good things happen to those who hustle.

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

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.