Example is not the main thing in influencing other people; it’s the only thing

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

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

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

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00—2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00.

Insist on yourself. Never imitate.

The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends and family, in one's backyard.

I’m not a businessman

Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed. It's that simple.

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.

The greatest reward in becoming a millionaire is not the amount of money that you earn. It is the kind of person that you have to become to become a millionaire in the first place.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching.

One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you.

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

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.

It takes humility to realize that we don’t know everything, not to rest on our laurels and know that we must keep learning and observing. If we don’t, we can be sure some startup will be there to take our place.

Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.

Do or do not. There is no try.