Having a great idea is simply not enough. The eventual goal is vastly more important than any idea. It is how ideas are implemented that counts in the long run

Anyone not busy learning is busy dying.

The belief that you have a great idea is not worth cuckoo spit. Ideas are ten a penny while the ability to execute counts for a great deal more.

People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.

Without self belief nothing can be accomplished. With it, nothing is impossible.

Say to yourself: The world is full of money. Some of it has my name on it. All I have to do is collect it.

Teamwork is the glue which binds losers together

Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.

I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

Most of the worst errors I made in my life came from forgetting to act small.

Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on the bean-counting side.

There have been bleak nights along my way, many of my own making, but life is all the brighter for them now. To the human eye, without the darkness there are no stars.

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3, 900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.

So many men so many opinions.

I'm pretty sure I'm going to fall in my GaGa shoes one night on tour and I'm hoping it becomes a Youtube sensation.

No hell will frighten men away from sin; no dread of prospective misery; only goodness can cast hell out of any man, and set up the kingdom of heaven within.

[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself.

I've lost love. I've tried to reclaim a lost love and didn't know how to do it.

No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.

Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.