Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.

People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

It takes humility to realize that we don’t know everything, not to rest on our laurels and know that we must keep learning and observing. If we don’t, we can be sure some startup will be there to take our place.