“I think earning money is the simplest thing in the world once you learn how to do it. It’s like driving a car. It’s simple if you know how to do it.”

We don’t even understand what we are capable of doing. School doesn’t teach us anything about ourselves. So the more we learn about ourselves, the more we take control over our life.

Therefore we find it hard to establish new habits and routines even if we know they will bring us a better life.

The competition is a big part of it [racing] – the passion you have for the sport and the knowledge you have.

Don’t expect a great day; create one.

Money is only used for two things. One, it’s to make you comfortable, and the more comfortable you are the more creative you will become. And the other purpose is it enables you to extend the service you provide far beyond your own presence.

All the borders in the world are man-made There are no borders, we are all hooked together. Everything is connected. There is no line of demarcation. We are hooked together like the colors of a rainbow, our problem is ignorance, we don’t understand that.

You’ve got to pay attention to what you’re attracted to because as you hold images of what you want, you’re gonna be attracted to things that are going to be attracted to you, but it literally moves into physical reality with and through you and it does that by law.

People who are interested in doing something will do it when it’s convenient; people who are committed will do it no matter what.

I’ve gone into prisons, I’ve gone into schools, I’ve gone into corporations, all over the world. It doesn’t matter where you go, people are essentially the same.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

All top salespeople have a highly evolved will all top leaders have a highly evolved will you see it’s the will that gives us the ability to focus

Successful people decide how they are going to live; they are not victims of circumstance. In good times or bad times, they know where they are going and they know that they are going to get there.

I was a football player and competitor in life.

You don’t know how to do something, until after you’ve done it. Our problem is, we set goals to do what we think we can do or what we’ve already done. There’s no inspiration in that.

Intelligence is an interesting word. It is also something which, in my opinion, is misunderstood by many people. There are those who believe that we go to school to become intelligent. Or, the more experience a person has on a particular job, the more intelligent they become.

You and I have the decision to decide what we are going to be with our life! Or we can let the paradigm control us and march along in lockstep type fashion.

I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?

What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.

I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?

I don’t like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there’s no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don’t know.

Artt Frank is my all-time favorite drummer. He always seems to know where I’m going.

White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?

In a way, it’s nice to know there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong.

[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.