Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the trough that defines you.

From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I would have to get it myself. So I did.

You can't look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn't give you cash flow, and, at the end of the day, cash flow is what is important. Gold doesn't give you dividends.

You must look like a money person for clients to trust you.

If people perceive themselves as having very little opportunities to be fulfilled, then it cheapens their life and outlook. The solution is to reverse it; make sure they know opportunities abound.

My first playpen was a cardboard box.

The philosophy to 'buy and hold' is a philosophy that I use to manage funds.

Doing business in Jamaica is not easy, but it is rewarding.

Private equity has been the purview of super wealthy individuals and institutions.

The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.

To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real?

Beware what you consume, lest you appetite grow by what it feeds on.

Don't look too far ahead or you'll get overwhelmed. Just do the next apparent thing. Keep putting one foot in front of the other. You'll get through this. And when you do, you'll feel great!

Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.

I haven't taken any new projects in the past years - I told myself, if I cannot live long enough to finish it, I don't want it.

If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.

Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.

Bad times can make you bitter or better.

Don't see yourself as a product of your parents DNA, but rather as a brand new idea from heaven.

The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.