Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.

When things go wrong don't go with them

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

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.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

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.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

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

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

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

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