“First, you’re going to have to stop using food for anything other than nutrition. You cannot continue to use food to celebrate, or as a companion, or for entertainment, or comfort. You cannot medicate yourself, your mood, or pain with food.”

You’re only lonely if you’re not there for you

If you do different, you will have different. If you begin to require more of yourself, that in and of itself is different.

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.

You can’t put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!

No matter how flat you make a pancake, it’s still got two sides.

Isn’t it amazing how easily you can cheat yourself out of the right choices by convincing yourself that you deserve the wrong ones? It’s highly illogical when you think about it. You deserve a better life, you deserve better health, and you deserve to lose weight.

I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer them keeping in mind that you are writing your children’s future with your answers.

You have to name it to claim it

Power begins with having a crystal-clear view of reality and what each and every person in your life is driven by.

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.

Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?

Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.

There are some sick people in this world

Experts indicate that you should aim for consistent weight loss of about one to two pounds per week, so you should remain realistic—you aren’t going to lose 40 pounds per week (no matter what any diet product claims).

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

We teach people how to treat us.

If you can buy the best companies, over time the pricing takes care of itself.

Old people, with other old people, are not so old.

Most companies are very quick to hire and slow to fire, when really it should be the other way around.

We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can’t copy the heart and the soul and the conscience of the company.

If the value of a company doesn’t just scream out at you, it’s too close.

Companies that only focus on expense reduction are all but dead as they will find themselves sooner or later unable to reduce anymore.

We invest generally in very good companies that have lost their way. And with better management, enormous value can be created.

Record companies, I found out, can put out compilations without your permission.