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

Don’t take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give — with a few exceptions — generalize whatever they did. Don’t over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work.

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

I’m not a businessman. I’m a business, man.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

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

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

It’s almost always harder to raise capital than you thought it would be, and it always takes longer. So plan for that.

Lend your friend $20. If he doesn’t pay you back then he’s not your friend. Money well spent.

The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize.

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

Insist on yourself. Never imitate.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

The diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected without trials.

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

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure

Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.

No man was ever wise by chance.