If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.

If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.

‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one’s work, the pride that makes business an art.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

God never made his work for man to mend.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

I am greedy for both Hollywood and Bollywood. For me, Bollywood is not new, as it is something that I grow up on… I know the plot… stories and characters that are written and made. I haven’t got the right opportunity to show my work in Bollywood.

We work to become, not to acquire.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.

If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.