Careful thinking and hard work will solve nearly all your problems. Try and see for yourself.

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

I never think of the future

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

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.

What is not started will never get finished

Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakes.

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.

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

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.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

User experience is everything. It always has been, but it’s undervalued and underinvested in. If you don’t know user-centered design, study it. Hire people who know it. Obsess over it. Live and breathe it. Get your whole company on board.

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

Be really picky with your hiring, and hire the absolute best people you possibly can. People are the most important component of almost every business, and attracting the best talent possible is going to make a huge difference.

I’m not afraid of dying, I’m afraid of not trying.

You’ve got to stop doing all the things that people have tried, tested, and found out don’t work.

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory