Steve Jobs had his critics. Some saw him as an egomaniac, and others, as a control freak.

I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't deal with it, too bad.

You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.

Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my money into battle unprepared and undefended. I send it to conquer and take currency prisoner and bring it back to me.

My partners... taught me that in order to create wealth, I needed to pair up with people whose strengths compensated for my weaknesses.

I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn from all of them.

Downturns are the best time to start businesses because you develop discipline that's very lean and mean in terms of how to spend money. And those habits serve you very well in good times.

The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.

We need physical exercise to prepare our brain for long periods of concentration

Life is hard, money doesn't care, your tears don’t add value

Vision is nothing without a plan to execute it.

If a craftsman wants to do good work, he must first sharpen his tools.

How can the moon be scooped from the water's surface, or flowers be plucked from the void?

You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.

A great voice is a unique instrument, not to sound like another instrument, but to be played like one.

Light up the darkness

We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone.

I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian.

You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through.

A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.

Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.