I learned not to worry so much about the outcome, but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it as perfectly as I could when I was doing it.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure

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.

When you cease to dream you cease to live

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

The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

It’s not about how to get started; its about how to get noticed.

There is only one success

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.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Every single person I know who is successful at what they do is successful because they love doing it.

A poorly implemented feature hurts more than not having it at all.

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.