Have the end in mind and every day make sure your working towards it

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance

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

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

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

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

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.

Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

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

You have a viable business only if your product is either better or cheaper than the alternatives. If it’s not one or the other, you might make some money at first, but it’s not a sustainable business.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.