It’s almost always harder to raise capital than you thought it would be, and it always takes longer. So plan for that.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.

The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

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.

There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.

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

If you don’t have a competitive advantage

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

Every artist was first an amateur.

The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job.