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.

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

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

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

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

Defeat isn’t bitter if you don’t swallow it.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

He who begins many things finishes but few

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.

Happiness is not a goal, but a by-product.

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

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