Successful people take big risks knowing that they might fall hard. But, they might succeed more than they ever dreamed, too.

Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poorer longer...often forever; give them knowledge instead.

If you want to change your life, begin by changing your words. Start speaking the words of your dreams, of who you want to become, not the words of fear or failure.

... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to become financially literate.

FOCUS - Follow One Course Until Successful

Remember, your mind is your greatest asset, so be careful what you put into it.

Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

Dear Miss Pomeroy, I am saddened by the things I do not know. There are hundreds--thousands--of books in the world and I will never be able to read all of them.I am old.Walter

Often we find a friend, not by accident, by unknown inner attraction and synchronicity.

What you have with her will save her. Just as it saved you.

Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all agree on.

After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with expensive names.

The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.

Life is marvelous now because I have a tape recorder.

The fortune of war is always doubtful.

And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will be no health in us and no healing humor.