“The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect.”

What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.

If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.

Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.

Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.

Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources.

The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.

An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business, it’s someone who makes things happen.

The most important actions are never comfortable.

Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.

Learn to be difficult when it counts.

Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.

People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment – now and not later.

If we define risk as ‘the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,’ inaction is the greatest risk of all.

There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.

Simplicity requires ruthlessness.

Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.

Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.

Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.

Put yourself in the condition where opportunities create often.  

Don’t put me in the condition where I have to show how cold my heart can get.

It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.

Now I’ve been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.

People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.