If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

If you have something at risk, you think differently.

Whales who come up and spout off get harpooned.

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it.

I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself.

It's one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment.

I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view.

I want people who will stand up to me. People who are not afraid to say exactly what's on their minds, even though that's probably not what I want to hear. That's what I want.

They were like two inviolable spheres touching at a fine point in their curves, touching but failing to penetrate, failing to breathe the other's air.

The geologic cycle is a bunch of balarky.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

The more business gets involved, the less fun it is.

I think having nature be a part of people's lives helps all of us see ourselves as part of something larger.

I want you to love me. I want you to trust me enough to let me love you, and I want you to stay here with me so we can build a life together. That's what I want

I think you could say every pastor is writing this book [ Max on Life]; for many it just never gets published.

the way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it.

Idleness is paralysis.