I'm an agent of change all day long, and I want to meet other people like that.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

I don't buy art. I'd rather buy a beautiful location or a beautiful site than buy art. A beautiful home is like owning a beautiful painting, except you can live in it.

I'm always looking over my shoulder, needing to stay ahead of the game.

What matters is hard work, and emotional intelligence.

People put 'study abroad' on their resume. I actually like when they don't study abroad because that means they aren't entitled.

Everything has a trend to it; I don't care if it's appliances or engines. I always ask: What has a company done in the past five years that somebody's noticed?

Most obstacles are inspiration.

Good taste shouldn't have to cost anything extra.

I spot detail quickly.

A merchant is someone who figures out how to select, how to smell, how to identify, how to feel, how to time, how to buy, how to sell, and how to hopefully have two plus two equal six.

The 2 greatest equalizers in life: Education and the Internet.

I've been audited for many, many years in a row, which I think is unfair, but that's the way it is.

Imagination and reality have little in common

What the enlightened person sees no one could ever tell or describe. Wonder beyond belief. We live in a universe filled with wonder. It is wonder just to live.

Fabricating answers to unanswerable questions is the domain of religion. A deity model is not the default alternative to a scientific mystery.

What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.

If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?

Great lovers realize that they are what they are in love with.

All I want is to be more famous than anything or anyone.

I'd be willing to bet you, if I were a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.