“It is easier to ask for money when you don’t need the money.”

I am very, very proud to say that I am pro-life.

You have to leave your comfort zone.

What’s the point of having great knowledge and keeping them all to yourself?

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough.

Be open to new information and ideas.

We must understand that governments cannot create real jobs. Only entrepreneurs can do that.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

The point is that you can’t be too greedy.

Show me someone without an ego, and I’ll show you a loser.

My motto is: Always get even. When somebody screws you, screw them back in spades.

You don’t reward failure by promoting those responsible for it, because all you get is more failure.

I like to think of the word FOCUS as Follow One Course Until Successful.

Everything in life is luck.

Every day I wake up determined to deliver a better life for the people all across America that have been ignored, neglected and abandoned.

As an entrepreneur, I choose my teachers carefully, very carefully. I am extremely cautious of the people with whom I spend my time and to whom I listen.

I feel a lot of people listen to what I have to say.

I care about the work I do. But I’m not going to say that money’s not an issue.

I guess if I had fifty million dollars I could spend more time at home.

I couldn’t care less how much money a person has, or what their job title is. Show me a person who seeks out the beauty in a wreckage; who’ll take the remnants of their troubles and stitch a sail from the tatters.

Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.

I think quite often when you have a hell of a lot more money and time, as you very much do on a big studio film, you don’t necessarily have to make the decisions right there. You can always goback and reshoot it.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

Once you’ve gotten your money in balance, you know how much you have to spend on things that are just fun.

I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.