Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort.

A man can fail, but he isn't a failure until he blames someone else.

The #1 guideline to success is you must be in business for yourself. When you work for someone else, you sell your time at wholesale to your employer, who then re-sells it at retail to the customer.

A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you are a business failure.

There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

Money isn't everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children.

Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing.

The key to wealth is to learn how to make money while you sleep

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

See yourself as a long-term work in progress, not a short-term project of preservation.

Being in Harry Potter is like being in the Mafia. Once you are in, you are never really out.

What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.

English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

He(C. Ronaldo) makes the most difficult plays look easy.

A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.

The media doesn't educate anyone.

I’m glad to be part of the war on sadness. I’m a part time employee of the illusion that keeps people stupid.

He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me.