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

“My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.”

“I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.”

“Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.”

“We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.”

“What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.”

“Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”

“Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.”

“There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.”