“The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.”

Thinking is hard work, which is why so few people do it.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

It is always possible to do a thing better the second time.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

It’s your thinking that decides whether you’re going to succeed or fail.

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.

Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.

Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.

You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I’ll build the business right back again.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s dam is the history we made today.

Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

Three rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best.

The more you think, the more time you have.

Directing is monumentally complicated and it’s a function of all the time you pay to it. I think it would be great to do a movie I’m not in, I could just eat Fritos and just say, ‘yeah, it’s good!’ Some day.

Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.

Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.

But I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.

Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer

The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.

I think being someone in love is so hard to define, so temporary, because retrospectively we often deny the state in which we were in love.