Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.