“Remember that the stock market is a manic depressive.”

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

I never invest in anything that I don’t understand.

You can’t make a good deal with a bad person.

The secret to happiness is having low expectations.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

I am not a businessman, I am an artist.

It’s only when the tide goes out that you discover who’s been swimming naked.

What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

It’s nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don’t want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it’s a little like saving sex for your old age.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you’ll do things differently.

If you’re in the luckiest one percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

The most important investment you can make is in yourself.

I learned some invaluable lessons in Nashville that apply to both farming and show business: Do not corner something you know is meaner than you; keep skunks of all kinds at a distance; if you forgive your enemies, it messes up their heads.

You are the only boss you have. And I want you to be the most demanding boss that you can be. If you really want to make a success of this business, then you must put yourself on a schedule.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

The seeds you plant in the hearts and minds of others will be what you receive in return – 100-fold. Only sow that which you wish to receive in return. Sow good, receive good! Plant seeds daily in your Mary Kay business and your Mary Kay business will return to you.

I have always been focused on my job. No profession allows you the luxury of being half-focused. If you’re not into it, you’re not there. And the film industry is all the more harsh in these cases, perhaps because it’s a business of the limelight.

The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed, you must have a larger ambition.

We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.