A leader is a dealer in hope.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.

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

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

The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job.

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

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

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

When you go to buy, don’t show your silver

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is likely to neither make money nor find much fun in life.

A ship in harbor is safe. But that’s now what ships are built for.

If I find 10,000 ways something won’t work, I haven’t failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.

Every time I took these bigger risks, the opportunity for a bigger payout was always there.

If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.

If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.

All of my friends were doing babysitting jobs. I wanted money without the job.

I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

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