You can shear a sheep a hundred times, but you can skin it only once.

I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him.

Look around the table. If you don't see a sucker, get up, because you're the sucker.

It never hurts for potential opponents to think you're more than a little stupid and can hardly count all the money in your hip pocket, much less hold on to it.

I don't believe in hunches. Hunches are for dogs making love.

Sometimes the lambs slaughter the butcher.

If you are going to bluff, make it a big one.

My favorite chip trick is to make everyone's chip stack disappear.

I dont play any two suited cards. I play any two non-suited cards. That way I am drawing at two different flushes.

Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence.

All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from and to and why.

There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.

I can explain it to you, but I can't comprehend it for you.

You need a string of successes behind you to buoy that self-image; otherwise, you have a terribly negative attitude about yourself and it is very unlikely you are going to succeed at anything.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued

I had what I would consider a normal upbringing and, which to me, a normal American up - upbringing for an American male child almost gears you towards going into the military.

It's really exciting. It's really exciting when you do a piece of work, and people like it, and it gets noticed.

I don't have to convince everybody in the room. I just need a critical mass of the people in the room.