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.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

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

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

The challenge is not just to build a company that can endure; but to build one that is worthy of enduring.

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

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Everything started as nothing.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

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.

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

Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right.

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs.

No man was ever wise by chance.