“People need to feel very good about their achievements. They get pride in what they are doing.”

If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.

When we decide to do something, we do it quickly.

The only way you finish with poverty is with jobs.

It’s important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.

Do not allow negative feelings and emotions to control your mind. Emotional harm does not come from others; it is conceived and developed within ourselves.

Think of an athlete. He may be very good in his own house, but not as good as his neighbors. You have to go beyond your home. You have to go worldwide.

All businesses make mistakes. The trick is to avoid large ones.

The combination of non-profit organizations like the foundations and profit businesses can work together in some areas.

I’ve always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others.

Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets, any sound investment will eventually pay off.

All times are good times for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.

Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny.

When you are convinced of what to do and what you need to do, it’s not hard to do that.

When you live for others’ opinions, you are dead. I don’t want to live thinking about how I’ll be remembered.

Choose the right employees and then set them loose.

The people inside the group need to have some conditions to follow. We have a philosophy of leadership, ideas, and concepts. They need to share that.

While transparency reduces corruption, good governance goes beyond transparency in achieving openness. Openness means involving the stakeholders in decision-making process. Transparency is the right to information while openness is the right to participation.

Just when you think you’ve achieved something, you realize you’ve achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same – toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.

Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.

It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.