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

Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.

Don’t be addicted to money. Work to learn. don’t work for money. Work for knowledge.

There are many people who have big plans but their big plans never come true. The reason is, too many people have big plans but fail to keep their small agreements.

The primary reason in starting a business part-time is not so much to make a product great. The real reason for starting a part-time business is to make you a great businessperson.

Being an entrepreneur is simply going from one mistake to the next. You must have the fortitude to continue on.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

If you’re lazy, don’t expect much in terms of success. You’re owed nothing and success will not be given to you. It’s earned.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

If you want to be rich, be friends with people who have the same mindset as you, or who at least won’t try to change your mindset to be more like theirs. Life is too short to spend time with people who don’t help you move forward.

Get your assets working for you so that your “ass” isn’t working for someone else.

The biggest trap, the biggest dungeon in life isn’t laziness or bad luck, it’s comfort.

It’s not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.

If you want to be rich, simply serve more people.

Before you invest in something, invest the time to understand it.

Don’t be afraid of your worst times. If you learn from them, you’ll look back on them as the best times.

Most people know how to set goals; few know how to achieve them.

The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It’s an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.

I don’t have to play the song all the way to the very end – I use it while it’s good and while it’s cool and while it’s exciting, and then I get out.

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.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.

I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.

But I can tell you markets are like women, always commanding, always mysterious, always volatile, always exciting and it is not a joke.