He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

Long term success is a direct result of what you achieve everyday. Goals provide your daily routine

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It's getting people to play beyond their potential

Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.

Success is determined by your daily choices and habits

I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid.

The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.

You can't tell what's in a person's heart until you truly Know them.

If you do not see light at the end of the tunnel, consider it an opportunity to create an opening yourself, wherever you want.

Mad – empty – crazy – lost – dying... I was all of these things and nothing as well, because even though I breathed and moved, I was not alive.

Never can tell when you might come on somebody needs skinning.

To avoid whipsaw losses, stop trading.

All things must pass, all things must pass away.

It is the duty of man to raise up man.

If you boss you think you can your instructor around, you won't learn.

Jazz is my comfort music, like comfort food.

Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.