A successful business is a good way to create significant wealth, but not every business will grow into a News Corporation or a McDonalds.

For many people a job is more than an income - it's an important part of who we are.

Don't go into business with the sole objective of making lot of money. If you put service, quality, and customer satisfaction first-the money will follow.

There are plenty of ways to get ahead. The first is so basic I'm almost embarrassed to say it: spend less than you earn.

The only prerequisites are past experience, a suitable personality and good communication skills: you need to be able to communicate adequately in English.

Personally, I tend to worry about what I save, not what I spend.

For many people a job is more than an income - it's an important part of who we are. So a career transition of any sort is one of the most unsettling experiences you can face in your life.

Don't invest in anything that you don't understand. Do your research first.

I don't think investment is that hard. It's doing the simple things on a regular basis.

Before you start trying to work out which direction the property market is headed, you should be aware that there are markets within markets.

Be prepared for disappointment and frustration. Be persistent and bounce back even more determined to succeed.

Reading is a pleasurable paradise.

I thought if only we could go onand meet again, shy as strangers.

By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.

Ernst was still in the Eastern Zone, about ninety kilometres from Berlin, when the truck emerged so inexplicably out of nowhere that it seemed to have been created by the rain itself.

I don't like the word 'alcoholic'. I like to think of myself as an advanced drinker.

Nobody wants to be the same as anybody else.

During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

No star playing, just football.

Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.

If it's enough money, I'll play the North Pole.