It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

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

A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

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.

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.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Success in life depends on action, that is, on what you do, and not what you Feel or think, and the price of success is hard work.

All my life I've had one dream, to achieve my many goals.

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

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

He who thinks little errs much

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