What makes you tick? Why do you care about the things you care about?

If you keep your nose to the grindstone, you don't have any nose.

Nobody remembers who was the richest toga salesman in Rome.

Everything has a lifecycle. You have to believe it’s going to change.

Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.

Society can't wait. It's sad there are so many entrepreneurs, business successes and venture capitalists who give no thought to society.

I don't think most analysts understand that whether I work a 70-hour week or an 80-hour week, I take my head with me when I go home.

If you start painting yourself into a corner, life starts shutting down. There is always hopefully a next.

Ask yourself: What forms the decisions you make? What is it that gnaws at you? What are your crucible moments?

Sometimes I wish I lived more in the day, but I'm happier thinking about tomorrow or the day after. The way I see it, there's always a new or next thing.

I am really proud of the development of the people on my team as they grow in purpose; they like what they see in the mirror.

Eyes and ears are not the problem... It is rage that blinds and deafens us. Or fear. Envy, mistrust. The world contracts, gets all out of joint when you are angry or afraid.

Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime.

My wife is my best friend, by far my best friend.

Audiences are not easily fooled, but they are easily confused.

I started in Martial Arts with my father when I was 4 years old. I guess I started because my two older brothers and mom trained so it was what our whole family did for fun.

I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.

The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

The financial education taught in schools is funded and taught by the big banks and corporations. It's like having the cat train the mice.

It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.

Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.