“You have the clean canvas of a whole week before you. Paint well.”

Financial winners don’t run sprints, they run marathons. They don’t rush. They do it step by step over time.

If you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.

Rich isn’t an amount of money, it’s a mindset about how you live. If you believe you can win, you can.

You must walk to the beat of a different drummer. The same beat that the wealthy hear. If the beat sounds normal, evacuate the dance floor immediately! The goal is to not be normal, because as my radio listeners know, normal is broke.

Wealth gained by dishonesty will be diminished, but he who gathers by labor will increase.

True leadership is servanthood. Put the interests of others at the center of your decisions.

Teaching kids about money is never just about money.

For your own good, for the good of your family and your future, grow a backbone. When something is wrong, stand up and say it is wrong, and don’t back down.

Be an evangelist with your excellence.

If hard work, integrity, thrift, and perseverance have caused you to succeed, then you don’t owe anyone an apology for winning.

If people in America would get their finances together and start taking care of each other, we could put the government out of business.

We’ve really got to stop looking to Washington to fix our problems. It obviously doesn’t have the ability to do that. People who are successful are not successful because of the president.

The paid-off home mortgage has taken the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice.

Goals convert vision into ENERGY.

When you’re trying to achieve a goal, negative people will just bring you down. Surround yourself with the positive.

Wealth comes from hard work but not because of hard work. Wealth comes because of God. Everything is His.

Art is difficult, transient is her reward.

Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy.

Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It’s a weird combination of elements.

There’s such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar… flamenco, jazz, rock, blues. You name it, it’s there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.

I’m all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living.

I believe in continuing to put love and kindness and compassion and art into the world.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative piece of art that you can’t look to one person – you couldn’t look to me, you couldn’t say, ‘Because Vin’s in it, it’s this or that.’ It’s really all of us coming together for that period of time to try and make magic.

I do think that drugs and alcohol have been glorified and exoticized in such a way that it gets into the art world.