“Go and get your things,’ he said. ‘Dreams mean work.”

I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.

I suppose my professional life can be split into writing books that all sound like infomercial products, most notably The 4-Hour Workweek, and then tech investing.

The quality of my writing dropped miserably if I tried to do more than four hours per day. It’s not necessary to put in 9-5 hours.

Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn't recognise. It's time for the machines to disappear. The computer's got to disappear into all of the things we use.

I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don't think they're doing art but are merely practicing a craft and working as good craftsmen. Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.

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

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

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

“Nothing will work unless you do.”

“Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace.

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.” 

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.” 

Nothing will work unless you do.

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Don’t waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour’s duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

All artists experience a lull in their work. It is a period of replenishing the soil – of plowing in and turning under our past experiences and watering them afresh with new ones.

The deeper the truth in a creative work, the longer it will live.

My happiest days are those in which I do good work.

“Everyone has a home but me.”