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.

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.

Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.

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.

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

I wasn’t satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

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

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

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

Never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

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