it's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones.

Just do it! First you make your habits, then your habits make you!

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity. If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two.

The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself... The more you learn, the more you'll earn.

Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

The Happiest people DO NOT necessarily have the BEST THINGS. They simply APPRECIATE the things they have.

We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

You cannot water your own plant if you are waiting on other people's approval to do so. Stop living your one and only life waiting for validation, start seeking your own inner voice to guide you.

You've either got it or you haven't.

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

How pleasant it is to be ignorant! Not to know exactly who Mozart was, to ignore his origin, his influence, the details of his technique! To just let him lead one by the hand.

Read every line item until you get it.

Okay. Look, why don't you take care of the half a million things you've been letting dangle in Roarke's Empire of Everything?" "Catchy title. I may use it one day.

All is fair in love and songwriting.

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

Everything I talk about in stand-up is my experiences as an American, as a father, as a husband, as a black man, as a human being.