The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services.

All great success and achievement is preceded and accompanied by hard, hard, work. When in doubt, 'try harder.' And if that doesn't work, try harder still!

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Failing to plan means planning to fail. What are your goals?

Every great human achievement is preceeded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort.

A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.

It doesn't matter where you came from, it doesn't matter how poor you are, it doesn't matter where your family was. It all doesn't matter. You can achieve anything if you have really clear goals and if you work really hard to learn what you need to learn.