Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

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

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

You can say anything to anyone, but how you say it will determine how they will react.

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

Openly share and talk to people about your idea. Use their lack of interest or doubt to fuel your motivation to make it happen.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly, I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

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

I treat business a bit like a computer game. I count money as points. I’m doing really well: making lots of money and lots of points.

Do not wait to strike until the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.

Lend your friend $20. If he doesn’t pay you back then he’s not your friend. Money well spent.