If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.