“When you are young, work to learn, not to earn.”

No one achieves great things by following the crowd. Have a spine. Strike your own path.

Learn how to learn, then learn what to learn.

The ability to sell is the number one skill in business. If you cannot sell, don’t bother thinking about becoming a business owner.

The problem with tomorrow is that I have never seen a tomorrow. Tomorrow does not exist. Tomorrow only exist in the mind of dreamers and losers.

The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left.

You cannot be all things to all people. Be unique. Be different. Give to others what you want yourself. And do what you were made to do.

In most cases, when people make more money, they get deeper in debt. This is why money alone does not make you rich.

Be worried if no one is criticizing you. Your job in life is to ignore the 33% who will never like you and do your best to convince the 33% who don’t care either way to join the 33% who love you.

If you want a solid future, you need to create it. You can take charge of your future only when you take control of your income source. You need your own business.

There are people who are not wealthy because they want to be comfortable.

If you are afraid of making mistakes, you won’t learn anything and you won’t make much money.

Comfort kills ambition. Get uncomfortable and get used to it in your pursuit of your goals and dreams.

To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game.

There is nothing more dangerous than a person with only one right answer.

A job is a short term solution to a long term problem.

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.

I think it’s really important to have a life and have interests outside of this [movie] business, and not rely on this business to validate you as a human being. If you do that, you’re really in a dangerous spot.

Business first; pleasure afterwards.

The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that get people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.

The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.

I wanted to convey the message of how I do what I want and how I run my own business, and I’m a woman in charge. I want all of my fans to know that that’s possible and feel empowered when they listen to my music.

I think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.

You know, a balance-sheet is like a bikini, it shows more but it hides what is vital. I learnt to read a balance sheet and then I got fascinated by stocks.