The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

If your product is great, you yourself do not have to be a great seller.

They're on you day and night. Their oversight is just too extreme [. . .] That's why our 10-year loan, we paid it back in three years. We couldn't stand the government. The bureaucracy kills you.

A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

As you go through life, there are thousands of little forks in the road, and there are a few really big forks-those moments of reckoning, moments of truth.

In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked them up and made pies. Today, you sue.