Stay self-funded as long as possible.

Start today, not tomorrow. If anything, you should have started yesterday.

Be really picky with your hiring, and hire the absolute best people you possibly can. People are the most important component of almost every business, and attracting the best talent possible is going to make a huge difference.

If plan ‘A’ fails

Hire character. Train skill.

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

Years teach us more than books.

Don’t treat your customers like a bunch of purses and wallets.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.

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

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.