You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

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.

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.

As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

If your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world.

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

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

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

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

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

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

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