Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

No man was ever wise by chance.

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work

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

The only journey is the one within.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company

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

The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, ‘Go!’ -a leader says, ‘Let’s go!’.

Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.

If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.

Believe that you will succeed

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

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

I don’t have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.

Don’t take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give — with a few exceptions — generalize whatever they did. Don’t over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work.

I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.

Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.

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.

the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.