What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.

If you’re not learning while you’re earning, you’re cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great

There is only one success

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.

Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.

If you’re not learning while you’re earning, you’re cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can.

I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep.

The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

I didn’t go to college, but if I did, I would’ve taken all my tests at a restaurant, ’cause ‘The customer is always right.’

Example is not the main thing in influencing other people; it’s the only thing.

Example is not the main thing in influencing other people; it’s the only thing.