When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The real test of business greatness is in giving opportunity to others. Many business men fail in this because they are thinking only of personal glory.
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
I always look at a group of people who want to attempt an enterprise greater than their means. They begin on this enterprise and they fail.
The world is filled with successful small businesses that stay small.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.