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

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.

You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

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.

Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly, I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: Spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.

The loftiest towers rise from the ground.

A poorly implemented feature hurts more than not having it at all.

Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity.

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

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly.

Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing it is stupid.

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

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs.

There are two rules for success. 1) Never tell everything you know.