Insist on yourself. Never imitate.

Every time I took these bigger risks, the opportunity for a bigger payout was always there.

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.

What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.

Everything started as nothing.

Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

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.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

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

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

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Success is not what you have, but who you are.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Stay self-funded as long as possible.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Leaders don’t force people to follow, they invite them on a journey.