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

Be nice to geek’s, you’ll probably end up working for one

A jade stone is useless before it is processed; a man is good-for-nothing until he is educated.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly.

If you’re not learning while you’re earning, you’re cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity.

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

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

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

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

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

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

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.

Find a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.

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.