You have a viable business only if your product is either better or cheaper than the alternatives. If it’s not one or the other, you might make some money at first, but it’s not a sustainable business.

If you start with nothing and end up with nothing, there’s nothing lost.

Make it happen now, not tomorrow. Tomorrow is a loser’s excuse.

The best way out is always through.

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

When you go to buy, don’t show your silver

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

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.

The loftiest towers rise from the ground.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune.

I treat business a bit like a computer game. I count money as points. I’m doing really well: making lots of money and lots of points.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.