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.

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.

Always deliver more than expected.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs.

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.

I’m not a businessman

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.

Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00—2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00.

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

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

Years teach us more than books.

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.

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

The only journey is the one within.

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

Start today, not tomorrow. If anything, you should have started yesterday.