"Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged.

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

"The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale."

"I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job."

"You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world."

"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference."

"I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod."

"We understand that you can't transform people who don't have internal drive and desire to create. But we also know it doesn't work to urge people to think outside the box without giving them the tools to climb out."

"Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something."

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