I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares.

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.

Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.

The best place to succeed is where you are with what you've got.

One can succeed at almost anything for which he has enthusiasm.

There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone...If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.

We are all salesmen every day of our lives. We are selling our ideas, our plans, our enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact.

Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.

The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.

I couldn't read. I just scraped by. My solution back then was to read classic comic books because I could figure them out from the context of the pictures. Now I listen to books on tape.

The way to get things done is to stimulate competition. I do not mean in a sordid, money-getting way, but in the desire to excel.

First he wrought and afterwards he taught.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work.

Some aim to be deft, others to be laboriously careful. Neither dexterity nor conscientiousness is enough.

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

I had a picture-perfect childhood. My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.

I have been driven demented in my career.

It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?

The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.