A fall into a ditch makes you wiser.

Stay self-funded as long as possible.

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

Don’t take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give — with a few exceptions — generalize whatever they did. Don’t over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work.

Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakes.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

The greatest reward in becoming a millionaire is not the amount of money that you earn. It is the kind of person that you have to become to become a millionaire in the first place.

Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching.

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

I don’t have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

Everything started as nothing.

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.

Success is the child of audacity.

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

Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00—2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00.

You don’t buy a nice car and get rich you get rich and buy a nice car

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.