A ship in harbor is safe. But that’s now what ships are built for.

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

Don’t treat your customers like a bunch of purses and wallets.

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.

Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: Spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.

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

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.

If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

If you can do something to get somebody excited — not everybody — but if you can be the best for somebody, then you can win.

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

To reach a port, we must sail

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

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

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.

If I find 10,000 ways something won’t work, I haven’t failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.

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.

Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: Spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.