I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares.

There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone...If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.

The best place to succeed is where you are with what you've got.

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

The nasty little secret was that I couldn't read worth a darn. In my case, I still read very slowly to this moment.

I couldn't read. I just scraped by. My solution back then was to read classic comic books because I could figure them out from the context of the pictures. Now I listen to books on tape.

People succeed at just about anything they're genuinely enthusiastic about.