You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Dont make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people cant take their eyes off of you.

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...

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

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.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

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.

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail.

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

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

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 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.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.

No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

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

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.

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

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

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.