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.

If you can do something to get somebody excited — not everybody — but if you can be the best for somebody, then you can win.

It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

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

As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.

Don’t stand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

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

We make a living by what we get. But we make a life by what we give.

Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right.

Believe that you will succeed

While a good leader sustains momentum, a great leader increases it.

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.

I wasn’t satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

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.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

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

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.