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.
I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.
There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is.
You can be comfortable in your career or extraordinary. Which one are you going to be?
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.
No man goes before his time – unless the boss leaves early.
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
We work to become, not to acquire.
Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
Working together is success.