“People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.”

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

Learn to be difficult when it counts.

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.

Emphasize strengths, don’t fix weaknesses.

Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

I never want to look back on life and say I wish I did something, and I don’t want anybody else to do that.

What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.

Work is doing it. Discipline is doing it every day. Diligence is doing it well every day.

Money… is like a beautiful thoroughbred horse – very powerful & always in action, but unless this horse is trained when very young, it will be an out-of-control & dangerous animal when it grows to maturity.

We should think of those who were famous for their good deeds or their bad deeds; did their fame raise them one single degree in the sight of Allah. Did it win them a reward that they had not already won by their actions during their life?