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Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.
Sep 10, 2025
Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.
Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.
You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Work hard at work worth doing.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.
If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
The harder I work the more I live.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.
If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.