It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is likely to neither make money nor find much fun in life.

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.

Insist on yourself. Never imitate.

The biggest failure you can have in life is not trying at all.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.

Building a castle is difficult. Defending and maintaining it is harder still.

If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

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

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.’

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.