Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: Spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.

What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

Everything started as nothing.

Example is not the main thing in influencing other people; it’s the only thing

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

How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.

If you’ve got an idea, start today. There’s no better time than now to get going. That doesn’t mean quit your job and jump into your idea 100% from day one, but there’s always small progress that can be made to start the movement.

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.

You shouldn’t focus on why you can’t do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.

I’m not a businessman. I’m a business, man.

If you’re not learning while you’re earning, you’re cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

Example is not the main thing in influencing other people; it’s the only thing

One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you.

“I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.

It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.

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.

Anything the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.