“Criticism is easier to take when you realize that the only people who aren’t criticized are those who don’t take risks.”

I don’t hire a lot of number-crunchers, and I don’t trust fancy marketing surveys. I do my own surveys and draw my own conclusions.

A brand is two words: the ‘Promise’ you telegraph, and the ‘Experience’ you deliver.

Winning is important, but survival is even more important. If you don’t survive, you don’t get to fight the next battle.

I am very, very proud to say that I am pro-life.

You have to leave your comfort zone.

What’s the point of having great knowledge and keeping them all to yourself?

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough.

Be open to new information and ideas.

We must understand that governments cannot create real jobs. Only entrepreneurs can do that.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

The point is that you can’t be too greedy.

Show me someone without an ego, and I’ll show you a loser.

My motto is: Always get even. When somebody screws you, screw them back in spades.

You don’t reward failure by promoting those responsible for it, because all you get is more failure.

I like to think of the word FOCUS as Follow One Course Until Successful.

Everything in life is luck.

If you mind criticism, I think you can’t protect people’s lives.

We’re fragile, fragmented souls who are very sensitive to criticism.

Most of my critics don’t even listen to me; they are clueless. They just go to Web sites that report what I say out of context.

Critics haven’t taught me my cricket, and they don’t know what my body and mind are up to.

Art is to look at not to criticize.

Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, ‘Is that a $20 million take?’ That kind of thing, and being self-critical.

Don’t criticize that man unless you have walked in his shoes.