Don’t stand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.

Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

You’ve got to stop doing all the things that people have tried, tested, and found out don’t work.

If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not making decisions.

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others… I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

One can get anything if he is willing to help enough others get what they want.