If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead -- if you strike oil.

I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort.

A man can fail, but he isn't a failure until he blames someone else.

The #1 guideline to success is you must be in business for yourself. When you work for someone else, you sell your time at wholesale to your employer, who then re-sells it at retail to the customer.

A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you are a business failure.

There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

Money isn't everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children.

Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing.

The key to wealth is to learn how to make money while you sleep

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

I think when you read a book you leave reality behind and enter your mind, where there is imagination that ignites you and that is when you truly are stuck in a good book...

From what I can see of humans, you often destroy wonderful things in the pursuit of something that your delusions make you think is more wonderful.

The best grammarian still can't write a verse.

Why we don’t feel sorry for killing thousands of mosquitoes every day? Are they useless or too many? We humans must realize it before it is too late.

I use a Blackberry. I'm so behind on mobile communication technology, I think a smartwatch may be too far a leap.

I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.

The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.

They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest.

The greatest pollution problem we face today is negativity. Eliminate the negative attitude and believe you can do anything. Replace 'if I can, I hope, maybe' with 'I can, I will, I must.

My friend Fred Coury, the drummer in '80s rock band Cinderella, told me that in the rock world, you're either still there, or you're struggling to get back to where you were.