I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

Remember what we're looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.

When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

Just because you came to the end of your rope, doesn't mean that you were climbing down.

The best partnerships aren't dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, desire, and no small amount of passion.

You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.

Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form.

The truly liberated human being is not always fighting against something, but more frequently is fighting for something or someone.

When you think about it, attention-deficit order makes a lot of sense. In this country there isn't a lot worth paying attention to.

By all means use sometimes to be alone.

From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of criminal law, not to mention criminal lunacy.

A perfectionist is someone who finishes the backside of a drawer, which I consider completely unnecessary.

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.