Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.

Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.

The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

Act confident, even when you're not.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

The things that caused problems for me in school are the same things that help me succeed in the world.

See things in the present, even if they are in the future.

You have to believe in what you do in order to get what you want.

Life's a journey. It's a journey about discovering limits.

The miracle centered gospel gives rise to a generation of people that believes that they don’t need to be good, better than anybody else but just want to pray and get favor.

The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.

What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.

Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.

I like being free to take on any project that inspires me and to trust that the work will speak for itself.

You have a choice. You don’t have to be a person who spreads negativity and lies for a living. You can do something good. You can be good. Let’s just make that choice and — it feels better.

After 34 years, I feel like I did when I was starting out. I feel excited and feel I've never been better doing what I do.

God sends the cold according to the coat.

I think that being a mother, you would do anything for your children. Their pain is your pain; if they're in pain, you feel their pain.

My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters how to sing.