“In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.”

We don’t get paid for being busy, we get paid for being right.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

I never invest in anything that I don’t understand.

You can’t make a good deal with a bad person.

The secret to happiness is having low expectations.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

I am not a businessman, I am an artist.

It’s only when the tide goes out that you discover who’s been swimming naked.

What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

It’s nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don’t want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it’s a little like saving sex for your old age.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you’ll do things differently.

If you’re in the luckiest one percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.

People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird’s eye view and they don’t create a systematic plan.

I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.

Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.

Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.

The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.

Business leaders cannot be bystanders.

Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. The other side of it is that you can’t cut enough costs to save your way to prosperity.