Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

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.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

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.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.

You can't make souffle rise twice.

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

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

Listen if you want to be heard

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.

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Be quick, but don't hurry.

It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.