Make your team feel respected, empowered and genuinely excited about the company’s mission.

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

Don’t stand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs.

I treat business a bit like a computer game. I count money as points. I’m doing really well: making lots of money and lots of points.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Most 'impossible' goals can be met simply by breaking them down into bite-size chunks, writing them down, believing them, and then going full speed ahead as if they were routine.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

A jade stone is useless before it is processed; a man is good-for-nothing until he is educated.

I’m not afraid of dying, I’m afraid of not trying.

The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.