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

Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching.

Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take.

You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

He who begins many things finishes but few

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