Knowing nothing about investing might be a benefit. You won't have to unlearn many popular beliefs propagated by Wall Street and the media that aren't true.

A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.

Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.

The greatest management principle in the world is: 'the things that get rewarded and appreciated get done.'

We talk about saving time and killing time when actually we can't do either. We have no choice but to spend it at a constant and flowing rate.

The most important key to successful investing can be summed up in just two words-asset allocation.

Too many start up business fail simply because their owners continue to think and act like employees.

It's important for you to understand that stock and bonds go up-and they go down. You need to be comfortable with that fact.

We know that by simply changing our allocation between stocks and bonds, we can lessen the amount of volatility in our portfolio until we reach our comfortable sleep level.

As for worrying about what other people might think - forget it. They aren't concerned about yours. They're too busy worrying about what you and other people think of theirs.

A Financial Research Corporation study determined that the expense ratio is the only reliable predictor of future mutual fund performance.

Every great tragedy forms a fertile soil in which a great recovery can take root and blossom, but only if you plant the seeds.

Yoga practices shift our identity away from the ego-personality and its struggles so that we can begin to reconnect with the essential nature of our being, which is bliss.

Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.

I had very good eyes once. Though it's another thing to say what I saw. In my experience, it is entirely possible to watch something happen and not to see it at all.

Give yourself the freedom to explore the possibility of life without limits. Goals are dreams with deadlines, a means to an end but not the ultimate purpose of life.

One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

I refuse to buy from anybody anything however nice or beautiful if it interferes with my growth or injures those whom Nature has made my first care.

Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.

Greatness is not always largeness.

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.