“Complaining becomes a habit. Focusing on the negative also becomes a habit. It’s one of the most detrimental habits you can possibly have. It can negatively impact you socially, affecting your personal happiness, but it can also subconsciously sabotage your money and success.”

Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don’t let these feelings stop them.

If a hundred-foot oak tree had the mind of a human, it would only grow to be ten feet tall!

Everything happens for a reason and that reason is there to assist me.

My definition of financial freedom is simple: it is the ability to live the lifestyle you desire without having to work or rely on anyone else for money.

If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.

Happiness doesn’t come from living a lukewarm life, always wondering what could have been. Happiness comes as a result of being in our natural state of growth and living up to our fullest potential.

Money brings freedom-freedom to buy what you want , and freedom to do what you want with your time. Money allows you to enjoy the finer things in life as well as giving you the opportunity to help others have the necessities in life.

We need to practice acting in spite of fear, in spite of doubt, in spite of worry, in spite of uncertainty, in spite of inconvenience, in spite of discomfort, and even to practice acting when we’re not in the mood to act.

“No thought lives in your head rent-free.” Each thought you have will either be an investment or a cost.

The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success ‘permanently’ is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change.

Where attention goes, energy flows and results show.

If you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy.

Money is a lubricant. It lets you “slide” through life instead of having to “scrape” by.

Focus on what you’re grateful for in your life. If you don’t appreciate what you have, you won’t get any more… because the universe thinks it’s not important to you, and therefore you don’t need any more.

Rich people are willing to promote themselves and their value. Poor people think negatively about selling and promotion.

Rich people play the money game to win. Poor people play the money game to not lose.

Whenever there is a big game and people don’t think I can do it, I always play my hardest, and now it has become a part of me.

I was interested in the ideas – freedom, free speech and having control of my own life. That’s why I became a Tory.

Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.

Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

I think you really have to become a parent to understand what you will endure to be there for your kids.

Wherever you go, things change you. I mean, obviously moving to Miami and becoming part of the NBA has given me a different perspective on style than I had when I lived in Chicago or Milwaukee.

I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.