If you don’t have a competitive advantage

You have a viable business only if your product is either better or cheaper than the alternatives. If it’s not one or the other, you might make some money at first, but it’s not a sustainable business.

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.

I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

A ship in harbor is safe. But that’s now what ships are built for.

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

The only journey is the one within.

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Fail often so you can succeed sooner.

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00—2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00.

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 fall into a ditch makes you wiser.