Hoping gets you nothing in life. If you want more in life it’s your job to earn it.

Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poorer longer...often forever; give them knowledge instead.

If you want to change your life, begin by changing your words. Start speaking the words of your dreams, of who you want to become, not the words of fear or failure.

... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to become financially literate.

FOCUS - Follow One Course Until Successful

Remember, your mind is your greatest asset, so be careful what you put into it.

Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.

When I was a boy of fourteen my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive.

The future of business is social.

I became Vulnerability TED, like an action figure - like Ninja Barbie, but I'm Vulnerability TED.

There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.

The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty.

Perhaps the greatest gift we can offer each other is a second chance.

We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason

You need to be distracted.

Tradition: sit with husband in a room lit only by tree lights and remember that our blessings outnumber the lights. Happy Christmas to all.