The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

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

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.

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

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

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

Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.

Success is doing what you want, where you want, when you want, with whom you want as much as you want.

Everything started as nothing.

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.

Ever notice how it’s a penny for your thoughts, yet you put in your two-cents? Someone is making a penny on the deal.