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.

Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can.

Be really picky with your hiring, and hire the absolute best people you possibly can. People are the most important component of almost every business, and attracting the best talent possible is going to make a huge difference.

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.