“Intelligence is the ability to solve problems.”

You don’t achieve success by “taking it easy” or “working on it later.” You achieve it through persistence and hard work.

The good news is that it doesn’t cost much money to change your thinking. In fact, it can be done for free.

The truth is that money doesn’t make you rich; knowledge does.

One of the most stupid things to do is to pretend you are smart. When you pretend to be smart, you are at the height of stupidity.

The only people who think life should be easy are lazy people.

Some people worry. Others prepare.

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

Often, the more money you make the more money you spend; that’s why more money doesn’t make you rich – assets make you rich.

Never say you cannot afford something. That is a poor man’s attitude. Ask HOW to afford it.

In today’s rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.

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

People don’t like the idea of thinking long term. Many are desperately seeking short term answers because they have money problems to be solved today.

People who refuse to open their minds to new strategies seldom become rich.

An intelligent person hires people who are more intelligent than he is.

Be careful who you get advice from. I get advice from people who are where I want to be.

Change your focus from making money to serving more people. Serving people makes the money come in.

The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship – it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

Our ability to receive love is a mirror of our own self worth. Until we learn to receive love with an open heart, we’re limited to how deep our relationships can go.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

Man belongs wherever he wants to go – and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.

It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.