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.

Success is not what you have, but who you are.

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.

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

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

There is only one success- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.

Building and hanging on to an audience is the biggest role of social media.

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

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan

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.

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

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.

There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Success is the child of audacity.

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

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.

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