But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.

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.

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

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.

A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things.

Yeah, well, you believe what you want to. I live in the real world.

It is in many people's best interest for you not to find yourself, but it only matters that it is in yours, and the whole world's, to proceed.

I'm sure that there are places in the deserts in Australia that could be similar to where we might want to go on Mars.

In America, we are just moving the chairs around and spending huge amounts of money rather than having them go in making people's lives better.

I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.

Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

I live for those rare and delicious moments when the words on the page take off and I am the bystander, watching as the tale shows me what will happen next.

What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful?