Not a single person whose name is worth remembering lived a life of ease.

Lots of companies don’t succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.

The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

One can get anything if he is willing to help enough others get what they want.

Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

It’s almost always harder to raise capital than you thought it would be, and it always takes longer. So plan for that.

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

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

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.

Hire character. Train skill.

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.

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

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.