Be really picky with your hiring, and hire the absolute best people you possibly can. People are the most important component of almost every business, and attracting the best talent possible is going to make a huge difference.

I’m not afraid of dying, I’m afraid of not trying.

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.

Openly share and talk to people about your idea. Use their lack of interest or doubt to fuel your motivation to make it happen.

If I find 10,000 ways something won’t work, I haven’t failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.

No man was ever wise by chance.

Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything.

A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own.

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

If you can do something to get somebody excited — not everybody — but if you can be the best for somebody, then you can win.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

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

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

The only journey is the one within.

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Lend your friend $20. If he doesn’t pay you back then he’s not your friend. Money well spent.

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