Fall seven times and stand up eight.

The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize.

Business opportunities are like buses

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma

If you’re not living life on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.

If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

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

Every time I took these bigger risks, the opportunity for a bigger payout was always there.

Never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others… I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

Not a single person whose name is worth remembering lived a life of ease.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory