My businesses are usually built around challenging conventional wisdom, so I tend to gain by taking the other side. It's been very profitable and entertaining for me

I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy.

Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people.

It's not in the dreaming, it's in the doing.

If given a choice between investing in someone who has read REWORK or has an MBA, I’m investing in REWORK every time. A must read for every entrepreneur.

Always wake up with a smile knowing that today you are going to have fun accomplishing what others are too afraid to do.

The only thing in your control is effort. That's all, and that's everything.

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.

I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet - I want to know who the morons are.

It takes time, it's a grind. There are no shortcuts. You've got to grind and grind.

Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.

It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in.

When I got cast in 'Rocky IV,' I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie.

The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of the people who produces them.

God ain't finished with any of us yet.

I tell my students, if you are going to spend days and months and years with someone, you had better like that person!

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules.