If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want ten years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want one hundred years of prosperity, grow people.

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing it is stupid.

If you’re not learning while you’re earning, you’re cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

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

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure

I failed my way to success.

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