Each [of my wives] was jealous and resentful of my preoccupation with business. Yet none showed any visible aversion to sharing in the proceeds.

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.

Life is singing with joy when you're smiling.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. -Andrew Young, author, civil rights activist, US congressman, mayor, and UN ambassador (b. 1932)

I get tweets every single day going, like, 'I'm so glad you weren't on 'The X Factor.''

I have no plans for the money but it'll be awfully nice to have it.

The bar is so low in rap - mediocrity is king!

My mother once said, "A beggar must always give to another beggar that's worse off than he is." That has always stuck with me.

I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.

Did you ever really love her? Not really no. But me? Yes. Even though I have no pizzazz?

True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.