Building fast-growing, globally competitive companies is tough.

I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't deal with it, too bad.

You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.

Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my money into battle unprepared and undefended. I send it to conquer and take currency prisoner and bring it back to me.

My partners... taught me that in order to create wealth, I needed to pair up with people whose strengths compensated for my weaknesses.

I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn from all of them.

Downturns are the best time to start businesses because you develop discipline that's very lean and mean in terms of how to spend money. And those habits serve you very well in good times.

The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.

We need physical exercise to prepare our brain for long periods of concentration

Life is hard, money doesn't care, your tears don’t add value

Vision is nothing without a plan to execute it.

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.

It was no human life that was involved in the matter, for that only is a human life which is a humane life.

Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty.

I am generally way out of touch with trends, except now and then I am surprised to find myself leading one, like sympathetic vampires.

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

Faith is taking God at His Word.

There are really exercises in a kind of consumerist ethic that I think don't have the same moral weight as medicine or health.

I will be able to love above all discontentment. To give even when I am stripped of everything. To dry tears even when I am still crying. To believe even when I am discredited.

In order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it.