You'll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world.

I never considered my dreams wasted energy; they were invariably linked to some form of action. When I dreamed about having a lemonade stand, for example, it wasn't long before I set up a lemonade stand.

It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.

No self-respecting pitcher throws the same way to every batter and no self-respecting salesman makes the same pitch to every client.

Take calculated risks. Act boldly and thoughtfully. Be an agile company.

It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. Yet is it any more unusual to find grace in the texture and softly carved silhouette of a bun than to reflect lovingly on the hackles of a fishing fly? Or the arrangements and textures on a butterfly's wing? Not if you are a McDonalds's man.

In business for yourself, but not by yourself.