“There’s an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, ‘It’s not the right time just yet.’ There’s no such thing as a good time. Get out of your garage and go take a chance, and start your business.

“Every time I took these bigger risks, the opportunity for a bigger payout was always there.

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

“Be really picky with your hiring, and hire the absolute best people you possibly can. People are the most important component of almost every business, and attracting the best talent possible is going to make a huge difference.

“If you can do something to get somebody excited — not everybody — but if you can be the best for somebody, then you can win.

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

“Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can.

“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.

“You have a viable business only if your product is either better or cheaper than the alternatives. If it’s not one or the other, you might make some money at first, but it’s not a sustainable business.

“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

“The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.