"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

“What is not started will never get finished”

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

“The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake- you can’t learn anything from being perfect.”

“To win without risk is to triumph without glory.”

"One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you."

“Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won't so you can spend the rest of your life like most people can't.”

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.”

“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”

“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”

“Success is not what you have, but who you are.”

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

"Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself."

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently."

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

"It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."

"My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had -- every day I’m learning something new."

“There is only one success- to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”

“Winners never quit and quitters never win."

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

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