If clients don’t trust you they will eventually stop doing business with you. It doesn’t matter how smart you are.

Before you can ever inspire, motivate, or influence, you must connect first.

Change is eminent, control is an illusion, but dreams are eternal. Believe in your dreams!

The true nature of mankind comes down to a simple question: 'Do we teach children how to be good or how to be bad?'

Getting an unsophisticated client was the golden prize. The quickest way to make money on Wall Street is to take the most sophisticated product and try to sell it to the least sophisticated client.

Taking action births motivation.

I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look students in the eye and tell them what a great place this was to work.

I named my dog Stay, so I can say, 'Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay!

I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little seesaw of the right throbs and wrong.

My book has a pre - civil rights setting with a post - civil rights sensibility. I believe less and less that there is something called "The Black Experience," though undoubtedly there was one once.

The guy who trains the hardest, the most, wins.

Furthermore, when there is cheating, the cheating needs to be called. And I see that the administration has become much more aggressive on that front [of retraining people who get displaced].

Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

I didn't know what was going on at the start in the swirling wind. The flags were all pointing in different directions and I thought the Irish had starched them just to fool us.

Baeyer-a chemist who was more of an encyclopedist than a researcher.

Now even the heavens are thankful that because of love I have become the giver of light.