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 'impossible' goals can be met simply by breaking them down into bite-size chunks, writing them down, believing them, and then going full speed ahead as if they were routine.

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

What is not started will never get finished

Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

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

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

It’s almost always harder to raise capital than you thought it would be, and it always takes longer. So plan for that.

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

Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

The diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected without trials.