I never, ever, ever let emotion get in the way of an investment.

I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't deal with it, too bad.

You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.

Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my money into battle unprepared and undefended. I send it to conquer and take currency prisoner and bring it back to me.

My partners... taught me that in order to create wealth, I needed to pair up with people whose strengths compensated for my weaknesses.

I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn from all of them.

Downturns are the best time to start businesses because you develop discipline that's very lean and mean in terms of how to spend money. And those habits serve you very well in good times.

The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.

We need physical exercise to prepare our brain for long periods of concentration

Life is hard, money doesn't care, your tears don’t add value

Vision is nothing without a plan to execute it.

We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism every year, every season, with every act of planting.

Imagine how much you could have saved if you didn't spend a lot of your money on those unnecessary things with the intention of getting attention or feeling "important" in the eyes of others.

The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.

It isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying.

Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.

If you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean.

A lot of people in television who've had successful shows claim the 'Roseanne' show as their starting place, and I'm really proud of that.

I don't care what reviewers think. If somebody hates a performance of mine, I kind of get a kick out of it. It amuses me when critics take something so irrelevant as a movie so seriously.

When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.

Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.