When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times read more

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was
not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love.
There is only a scarcity of resolve read more

There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love.
There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. - Letters read more

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. - Letters to Young Men.

Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.

Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.

Children need models rather than critics.

Children need models rather than critics.

One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially
if one is to survive in the world. It read more

One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially
if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.

When you hire people who are smarter than you are, you prove you are
smarter than they are.

When you hire people who are smarter than you are, you prove you are
smarter than they are.

What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail.

What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail.