Dream big and kick ass.
Entrepreneurs are always taking feedback, especially from their customers, bankers, workers, and sales force. Without straightforward feedback, entrepreneurs cannot make sound decisions.
Make every day extraordinary no matter what your job is.
A brand is two words: the ‘Promise’ you telegraph, and the ‘Experience’ you deliver.
Remember there’s no such thing as an unrealistic goal, just unrealistic time frames!
President Reagan put it best: Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
Don’t get sidetracked. If you do get sidetracked, get back on track as soon as possible. Ultimately sidetracking kills you.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities … the expression of love … then life itself loses its meaning.
We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don’t take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death’s valley.
I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell and laughs. But I do sometimes laugh when people fall down.
If you can eliminate all the other choices, the remaining choice, no matter how improbable, is the answer.
I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.
Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot have, but perseverance all can have.
Fear is the great extinguisher of dreams… Conversely, it can be your best mentor and source of motivation.
The more you can dream, the more you can do.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself, Nothing is impossible!!!
To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don’t pay the price day in and day out, you’ll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
