I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me.

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.

We do not have to go in search of passion. Instead we need to search for God, who plants the seed of passion in our hearts.

When you start lying, you stop building trust. When you stop lying, you start building trust.

She was disgusted with herself...and the disgust permanently cured her of suicide. Her piddling life did not deserve dramatic remedies.

The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.

I'm a big boy now, and I have to deliver.

I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions - a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom.

I stood at a crossroads and fate came to meet me.

American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.

Somehow it always comes back to coal at school.