I like lecturing and going around the world and giving talks and I like doing consulting and helping people.

You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.

Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others—that is too high a price to pay.

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.

Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.

Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.

No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.

The bad news is that yesterday sucked. The good news is that yesterday is gone. Today's a new day. Own it! Shape it! Live it!

They (corporations) cannot commit treason nor be outlawed nor excommunicated for they have no souls.

"The tradition of the new." Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche.

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg and he is trying to run away it is best to let him run.

Forgiveness, quite frankly, is the most selfish thing you can do. Because it is the greatest thing you can do for yourself.

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

When you're sharing a mud hole with a wildebeest derriere in sub-Saharan Africa, that's a living hell.

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet.