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

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

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

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.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.

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

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.