An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.

Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.

Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune - really anything, everything - to their advantage.

Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book

To do great things, we need to be able to endure tragedy and setbacks. We've got to love what we do and all that it entails, good and bad. We have to learn to find joy in every single thing that happens.

The Germans have a word for it: Sitzfleisch. Staying power. Winning by sticking your ass to the seat and not leaving until after it's over.

We decide what we will make of each and every situation. We decide whether we’ll break or whether we’ll resist.