Defeat isn’t bitter if you don’t swallow it.

Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity.

You don’t buy a nice car and get rich you get rich and buy a nice car

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are for.

Don’t be trapped by dogma

To reach a port, we must sail

I didn’t go to college, but if I did, I would’ve taken all my tests at a restaurant, ’cause ‘The customer is always right.’

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.

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.

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.

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.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

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.

Make your team feel respected, empowered and genuinely excited about the company’s mission.