Your life must be a progression towards ownership – first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

I’m never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

I know that I came into the world with what I call ‚big dharma‘ – with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

I’ve never had writer’s block.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder.

I’m chasing perfection.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

You may delay, but time will not.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

I like to work.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Find people who will make you better.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

I’m a day-to-day-type person.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

Maybe ‚loner‘ is too strong a word, but I’ve always enjoyed being on my own.

For me, it’s enough that I have the first and last word.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

To create something you must be something.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.