“If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.”

Talk is cheap. Learn to listen with your eyes. Actions do speak louder than words. Watch what a person does more than what he says.

If you are not successful, that means you’re not making enough mistakes.

People need to wake up and realize that life doesn’t wait for you. If you want something, get up and go after it.

Financial struggle is often the direct result of people working all their lives for someone else.

Money is not the goal. Money has no value. The value comes from the dreams money helps achieve.

The No.1 thing people can do to increase their wealth is to start a part-time business.

You cannot improve your future if you are not willing to try something new and risk making mistakes and learning from them.

Don’t stop trying, learning, fighting, experimenting, doing, until the miracle happens.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

Don’t sacrifice your spirit for wealth. Grow your wealth by first growing your spirit.

You don’t achieve success by “taking it easy” or “working on it later.” You achieve it through persistence and hard work.

The good news is that it doesn’t cost much money to change your thinking. In fact, it can be done for free.

The truth is that money doesn’t make you rich; knowledge does.

One of the most stupid things to do is to pretend you are smart. When you pretend to be smart, you are at the height of stupidity.

The only people who think life should be easy are lazy people.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems.

Success is achieved by people who deeply understand reality and know how to use it to get what they want. The converse is also true: idealists who are not well-grounded in reality create problems, not progress.

But when you really believe-in yourself, in your dream-you just have to do everything you possibly can to take control and make your vision a reality. No great achievement happens by luck.

I believed less is what I needed, what I tried to achieve; I thought less is more, better, the minimalistic beauty of life.

The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.

Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.

You can’t always get what you want.

Hustling is putting every minute and all your effort into achieving the goal at hand.

When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.