Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing it is stupid.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

You can say anything to anyone, but how you say it will determine how they will react.

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.

A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are for.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance

If you’re not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

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

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

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

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.

Years teach us more than books.

The challenge is not just to build a company that can endure; but to build one that is worthy of enduring.