Don’t be trapped by dogma

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly, I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

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

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

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer not a dreamer.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take.

Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can.

I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

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

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

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

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.