I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

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

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

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

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...

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

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.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

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

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

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.