A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.

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

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken

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

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

All of my friends were doing babysitting jobs. I wanted money without the job.

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

Never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

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.

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

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance