How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.

If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want ten years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want one hundred years of prosperity, grow people.

If you’ve got an idea, start today. There’s no better time than now to get going. That doesn’t mean quit your job and jump into your idea 100% from day one, but there’s always small progress that can be made to start the movement.

If plan ‘A’ fails

There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

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

People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

You’ve got to stop doing all the things that people have tried, tested, and found out don’t work.

The challenge is not just to build a company that can endure; but to build one that is worthy of enduring.

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

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