“Building your own business is the best way to become rich. Then you can begin investing in other assets.”

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

Don’t be so bitter about a bad experience from your past that you miss the opportunities in front of you.

Those who have safe and secure jobs pay more taxes than those who own the business that provides the jobs.

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.

Brokenness is a beginning.

Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I’ve left the opera house.

When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.

Purpose is when you know and understand what you were born to accomplish. Vision is when you see it in your mind and begin to imagine it

In dreams begins responsibility.

To those who have as yet not learned the secret of true happiness, which is the joy of coming into the closest relationship with the Maker and Preserver of all things: begin now to study the little things in your own door yard.