Always wake up with a smile knowing that today you are going to have fun accomplishing what others are too afraid to do.

I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy.

Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people.

It's not in the dreaming, it's in the doing.

If given a choice between investing in someone who has read REWORK or has an MBA, I’m investing in REWORK every time. A must read for every entrepreneur.

The only thing in your control is effort. That's all, and that's everything.

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.

I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet - I want to know who the morons are.

It takes time, it's a grind. There are no shortcuts. You've got to grind and grind.

I think that any reporter or columnist will be a little more careful when doing interviews with me.

So I fight. I fight the only way I know, with thinking of Ky, even thought the pain of missing him is so strong I can hardly stand it... I think of him, I think of him, I think of him.

I don't judge those who can't dream, those who need to pierce their arms to create different worlds under their skin, because I am fortunate in the tools of my escapes

Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.

Father, you died once, salted down at fifty-nine, packed down like a big snow angel, wasn't that enough?

The spirit of Columbus hovers over us to-day.

We must help to the limits of our strength. And we will.

Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.

There's more learning than is taught in books.

I went to China for a brief working visit, and I thought that Shanghai was interesting, but Beijing totally grabbed me.

Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.