Well done is better than well said.

Everything good is costly and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

Two of the hardest tests in life: The patience to wait for the right moment and the courage to accept whatever you encounter.

What you are not, you can never be, until and unless you do something about it.

The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’

A business absolutely devoted to service will have one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any man or order of men.

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave.

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.