“If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.”

“If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.”

“Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.”

“America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.”

“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.”

“Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?”

“A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.”

“Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.”

“I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl.”