When you cease to dream you cease to live.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t.

The biggest failure you can have in life is not trying at all.

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

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

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

It takes humility to realize that we don’t know everything, not to rest on our laurels and know that we must keep learning and observing. If we don’t, we can be sure some startup will be there to take our place.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom.

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

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

I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

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

Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune.

I failed my way to success.

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.

It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.