“Age doesn’t matter. An open mind does.”

Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources.

The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.

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.

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.

I don’t worry about a number. I’m fine with aging.

Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.

Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.

Age is the first limitation on roles that I’ve ever had to encounter, and I hit that a while ago.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.