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

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.

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 I were the president of the United States, I would make unions illegal. They no longer serve a functional purpose in democracy, in my view.

The greatest gift for yourself is to study to the highest degree.

The beauty of existence is my joy.

Someone should love you. I will bite him if he will not.

Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer he has already tried every other means of escape.

A lost article invariably shows up after you replace it.

You can't force inspiration. It's like trying to catch a butterfly with a hoop but no net. If you keep your mind open and receptive, though, one day a butterfly will land on your finger.

If the modern leader doesn't know the facts, he is in grave trouble, but rarely do the facts provide unqualified guidance.

The exception does not prove the rule.

For now realize that you can change anything you want, but you can't change everything you want.

The love we do not show here on Earth is the only thing that hurts us in the after-life.