Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort.

A man can fail, but he isn't a failure until he blames someone else.

The #1 guideline to success is you must be in business for yourself. When you work for someone else, you sell your time at wholesale to your employer, who then re-sells it at retail to the customer.

A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you are a business failure.

There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

Money isn't everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children.

Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing.

The key to wealth is to learn how to make money while you sleep

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

Doctors are great--as long as you don't need them.

It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.

Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.

It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.

You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that's all.

For example at the moment there is a compulsory requirement to buy an annuity. That is something we would get rid of. It puts some people off saving.

It's nice, when the lights come up at the end of the movie, to not be like, "What did I just watch?"

I love kale. I bake it. I sauté it. I juice it. I massage it. I want other people to join the cult-of- kale.

Radio interviews are really snappy and I'm just bad at that. I just close down.

It was of tremendous comfort. I always said my prayers at night. My mother taught actually me to say prayers at night but most of it came from the church.