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

I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep.

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.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

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.

Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

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

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

There is only one success

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Every single person I know who is successful at what they do is successful because they love doing it.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance

Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

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

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