Make your team feel respected, empowered and genuinely excited about the company’s mission.

Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakes.

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

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.

As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.

The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize.

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.

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

Make your team feel respected, empowered and genuinely excited about the company’s mission.

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

As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.

Do or do not. There is no try.

Fall seven times, stand up eight

Do or do not. There is no try.

Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing it is stupid.

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

To win without risk is to triumph without glory

Fall seven times, stand up eight

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all of the time.

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