“Three rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best.”

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

People are as happy as they choose to be.

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.

Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.

Faith without action is delusion. Faith does not wait for miracles but produces them. If you think you can or if you think you can’t, you are right.

Success is 99% failure.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

If it doesn’t add value, it’s waste.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

fMoney doesn’t make us anyway it just unmasks us.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.

I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.

See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I personally feel that the Indian body type is not cut out to be size zero. I am not size zero and I don’t believe in that either.

I’m not looking for perfect just something worth believing in.

You have to look inside yourself and you have to say, well, what am I about? Why does anyone need this? Why does anyone need a ‘Tom Ford’ jacket? What do I believe in?

Never kiss anyone who doesn’t believe in poetry.

We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of war, and, more particularly, nuclear war.