“Learn to be difficult when it counts.”

An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business, it’s someone who makes things happen.

The most important actions are never comfortable.

Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.

Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.

People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment – now and not later.

If we define risk as ‘the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,’ inaction is the greatest risk of all.

There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.

Simplicity requires ruthlessness.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

I have plenty of money to do what I want to do, and I have the relationships.

For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.

There is always more information than attention.

Creating demand is hard. Filling demand is easier. Don’t create a product, then seek someone to sell it to. Find a market – define your customers – then find or develop a product for them.

Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.

Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.

It isn’t where you came from, its where you’re going that counts.

An economy that we need that works for everyone. Where everyone works, everyone counts and everyone contributes.

Everything that we believe in and count on is really in question right now. Our safety net, public education, housing, health care.

What counts in the end is what the government does.

Prosperity is as short-lived as a wildflower, so don’t ever count on it.

Next time you think of beautiful things, don’t forget to count yourself in.

You were the one who made things different, you were the one who took me in. You were the one thing I could count on, above all, you were my friend.

We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.