Lend your friend $20. If he doesn’t pay you back then he’s not your friend. Money well spent.

I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

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.

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

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

Hire character. Train skill.

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

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

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.