The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.

When you cease to dream you cease to live

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 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.

There is only one success- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Building a castle is difficult. Defending and maintaining it is harder still.

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

When you cease to dream you cease to live

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

I don’t have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.

Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others… I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great

Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.

Never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Example is not the main thing in influencing other people; it’s the only thing

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

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

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