The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services.

Success comes when you do what you love to do, and commit to being the best in your field.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Terry Garvin and I did whatever we had to do to make the Amarillo promotion a financial success. We wore many different hats. Concession is a big part of the income that keeps a promotion going, so Terry would get huge bags of popcorn, 2-liter bottles of soft drinks, and bags of ice, at wholesale prices, and the promotion would sell them.

Nature is neutral; if you do the same things that other successful people have done, you will enevitable enjoy the same success they have.

Be willing to launch in faith, with no guarantees of success. This is the mark of personal greatness.