Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

There is no substitute for hard work.

-- Thomas Edison

He who plans more, wins. He who plans less, loses.

-- A Sengoku-era daimyo who transformed a single prov

一生懸命だと知恵が出る、中途半端だと愚痴が出る、いい加減だと言い訳が出る。

-- The 'Tiger of Kai' who transformed his landlocked mountain domain into one of Sengoku Japan's most formidable military powers

No plan survives first contact with the enemy.

-- The Prussian military theorist whose 'On War' became the most influential work of strategic theory in Western history

Forgetting is the natural grace that time bestows.

-- Yasushi Inoue

One only sees what one already knows and understands.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe