If people perceive themselves as having very little opportunities to be fulfilled, then it cheapens their life and outlook. The solution is to reverse it; make sure they know opportunities abound.

From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I would have to get it myself. So I did.

You can't look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn't give you cash flow, and, at the end of the day, cash flow is what is important. Gold doesn't give you dividends.

You must look like a money person for clients to trust you.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the trough that defines you.

My first playpen was a cardboard box.

The philosophy to 'buy and hold' is a philosophy that I use to manage funds.

Doing business in Jamaica is not easy, but it is rewarding.

Private equity has been the purview of super wealthy individuals and institutions.

The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.

Going into business without a business plan is like going on a mountain trek without a map or GPS support – you’ll eventually get lost and starve!

But here's how it works: when the world has told you once too often and once and for all that you are nothing nothing nothing then you come to the conclusion that others may be nothing too.

No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!

Risk something or forever sit with your dreams.

Teenagers are like bees at night, I think. We don't like waking up and we don't always get with the program immediately, but once we figure out our mission, we'll see it through.

Whatever is spoken of acquires a certain existence.

We... joked a little about presidential portraits. He [Bill Clinton] told me that he and Harrison Ford had been joking recently about how chins drop with age, and he didn't want to look that way.

And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal

I've crippled more people than polio.

My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.