“There are worse situations than drowning in cash and sitting, sitting, sitting. I remember when I wasn’t awash in cash — and I don’t want to go back.”

I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.

If you don’t keep learning, other people will pass you by. Temperament alone won’t do it – you need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.

Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.

The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win.

I don’t spend much time regretting the past, once I’ve taken my lesson from it. I don’t dwell on it.

It takes character to sit there with all that cash and do nothing. I didn’t get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.

The wise ones bet heavily when the world offers them that opportunity. They bet big when they have the odds. And the rest of the time, they don’t. It’s just that simple.

Any year that you don’t destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year.

A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.

It’s a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.

Bull markets go to people’s heads. If you’re a duck on a pond, and it’s rising due to a downpour, you start going up in the world. But you think it’s you, not the pond.

Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.

It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.

It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and easily learned principles.

Step by step you get ahead, but rarely in fast spurts.

Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!

Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can’t think of anything I’d want to spend my money on.

Without doing the big blockbusters, I wouldn’t be able to find the money to go after little projects that I want to do.

It’s hard finding people you trust or who aren’t going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you’re doing. It’s a nightmare.

I think it was ‘The Diary of Alicia Keys’. That was the first time album I ever bought with my own money. I had a little Discman.

You get a bigger paycheck if you are the hero. There is something good about it.

My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, ’cause he only stole the good stuff.

You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it’s not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.