The single most important route of success is persistence - never, ever give up!

And that's the secret. Timing, hard work and smart partners. Using that formula, I've either founded or funded over 80 companies, and none have gone bankrupt. Most have done very well.

I am truly an angel investor and I'am not a passive investor.As a passive investor, I am awful because I can not put funding into a company and leave it to other people.

I don't think I'm stubborn. I just focus on the task at hand and do what it takes. Persistence is the single most important thing for success.

Make a mark; don't be part of the living dead.

Fear of failure is fiction, face this fact and fear will fall.

Together we shared a bond not even death would violate.

Compare your life only with the commandments of God.Be like God. He is the mighty being that dwells in you.

The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.

As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.

Sundays kill more people than bombs.

Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.

Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.

The biggest pitfall as you make your way through your life is impatience.

We're all swimming in this digital revolution that we live in.