Follow your honest convictions, and stay strong.

What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

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

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

Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan

The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

Fall seven times, stand up eight

I learned not to worry so much about the outcome, but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it as perfectly as I could when I was doing it.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

If plan ‘A’ fails

Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.

Do not wait to strike until the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.