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.

The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.

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

“I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company

“I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.

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.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends and family, in one's backyard.

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