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When there are better players around you, you get better.

Find allies rather than adorers. Adorers will point out everything you do well. Allies will also be honest with you when they feel you are making mistakes or not living up to your potential.

Sharing leads to connections, connections lead to collaboration, collaboration leads to creativity and innovation. Creativity and innovation are what change the world.

You don't have to be Bill Gates or Thomas Edison or Henry Ford to make a difference. Thousands of less famous entrepreneurs have done more than their part to enrich this country.

Growth has been the great alleviator of poverty. Growth has been the engine of social mobility. Growth is the key ingredient in the glue that holds our society together.

It was too late for 'talk-teaching' — 'do-teaching would be a lot faster.'

It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.

Do not confuse dreams with wishes. Dreams are where you visualize yourself being successful at what's important to you to accomplish. Dreams build convictions because you work hard to pay the price to make sure that they come true. Wishes are hoping good things will happen to you, but there's no fire in your gut.

One thing is for sure — if you never try, you're never going to win.

The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not, to live your life as an honest and compassionate person, to contribute in some way.

Do not confuse your net worth with your self-worth.

Success doesn't come from a high IQ or innate talent. It takes a willingness to work hard. There is just no substitute for hard work and relentless preparation.