The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.

I failed my way to success.

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.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest 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.

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

One can get anything if he is willing to help enough others get what they want.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

I don’t have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.

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

Don’t take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give — with a few exceptions — generalize whatever they did. Don’t over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.

Make your team feel respected, empowered and genuinely excited about the company’s mission.

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

If you start with nothing and end up with nothing, there’s nothing lost.

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

When you cease to dream you cease to live

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.