"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home."

"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes."

"Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order."

"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."

"Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take many small steps."

"I will study and prepare, and someday my opportunity will come."

"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results."

"If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team."

"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get."

"Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts."

"Fears are educated into us and can, if we wish, be educated out."

"Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it."

"You're never a loser until you quit trying."

"You will find at the base of and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, a man consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in his powers, with faith in the worthiness of his endeavors."

"The only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet."

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."

"Whenever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together."

"If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was 1,000 miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up."

"Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it."