Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: Spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.

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

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

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

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

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly, I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

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

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

The diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected without trials.

Make it happen now, not tomorrow. Tomorrow is a loser’s excuse.

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

It takes humility to realize that we don’t know everything, not to rest on our laurels and know that we must keep learning and observing. If we don’t, we can be sure some startup will be there to take our place.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.