When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.

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.

Most people forget that there is more to beauty than just one's physical appearance. Your physical beauty will inevitably age and fade away, but a beautiful heart won't.

I just felt like I can try to do something special.

Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.

Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.

When I came to North America, it was hard. It was hard to understand, hard to get someone to understand me. I only knew Russian. I studied French in school, but it didn't help. I forgot most of that.

Beauty is a natural superiority.

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

All special assistants to the president are typically political appointees of the first year of the new president.

The laws all true wanderers obey are these: 'Thou shalt not eat nor drink more than thy share,' 'Thou shalt not lie about the places thou hast visited or the distances thou hast traversed.

Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.