It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends and family, in one's backyard.

Every artist was first an amateur.

You should always stay hungry. Stay hungry, so you can eat.

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

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

It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.

Success is not what you have, but who you are.

Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.

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.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

No man was ever wise by chance.

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