Forget about finding your passion. Instead, focus on finding big problems.

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.

If you keep doing things that don't matter to you, you will not have time to do things that really do.

HOW TO MAKE A REVOLUTIONARY CONSCIOUSNESS IS: educate yourself. On the train, for example, read the same two pages of Das Kapital over and over, willing them to make sense.

Perhaps one never seems so much at one's ease as when one has to play a part.

They can change every name in South Africa, but it won't change the fact that the government has failed to provide services or curb crime

When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete.

We have weakened the parties and strengthened all the special interests.

Out of the blue and into the black

You know, nobody can ever cook as good as your mama.

Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult.

Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research results, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful and highly entertaining resource.