Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Don’t take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give — with a few exceptions — generalize whatever they did. Don’t over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.

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

There is only one success- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed. It's that simple.

Don’t stand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others… I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

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.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

A person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the man doing it.

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

Years teach us more than books.

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

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

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