When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

If you're young and reckless, you take risks pretty easily. And then - it's in your nature, I guess - but if you have some degree of success, not always, but some degree of success, it emboldens you to do more. And I guess, if you have some gambling genes in you somewhere, you get some genetic enjoyment of risk. Some people enjoy risk and some people hate it.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dread.