If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

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

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible'.

At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.

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.

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

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

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it