If you’ve got an idea, start today. There’s no better time than now to get going. That doesn’t mean quit your job and jump into your idea 100% from day one, but there’s always small progress that can be made to start the movement.

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

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.

No man was ever wise by chance.

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

“I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.

Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity.

If you don’t have a competitive advantage

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

There’s an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, ‘It’s not the right time just yet.’ There’s no such thing as a good time. Get out of your garage and go take a chance, and start your business.

Don’t be trapped by dogma

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.

Success is doing what you want, where you want, when you want, with whom you want as much as you want.

I failed my way to success.

Building and hanging on to an audience is the biggest role of social media.

Openly share and talk to people about your idea. Use their lack of interest or doubt to fuel your motivation to make it happen.

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.

Lend your friend $20. If he doesn’t pay you back then he’s not your friend. Money well spent.

Even if you don’t have the perfect idea to begin with, you can likely adapt.