Knowing isn't doing; doing isn't knowing. Nothing but the knowing and the doing gets it done.

Anyone not busy learning is busy dying.

The belief that you have a great idea is not worth cuckoo spit. Ideas are ten a penny while the ability to execute counts for a great deal more.

People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.

Without self belief nothing can be accomplished. With it, nothing is impossible.

Say to yourself: The world is full of money. Some of it has my name on it. All I have to do is collect it.

Teamwork is the glue which binds losers together

Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.

I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

Most of the worst errors I made in my life came from forgetting to act small.

Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on the bean-counting side.

One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds is our impatience with little baby steps, our lack of humility.

It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

When we undertake to cover our sins, . . . behold, the heavens withdraw themselves; the Spirit of the Lord is grieved; and when it is withdrawn, Amen to the priesthood or the authority of that man

As a whole, the election process before the election and on the day of election was successful, and I think Azerbaijan had normal and democratic elections.

I was even accused of teaching the chimps how to fish for termites which I mean that would have been such a brilliant coup.

Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.

Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.

You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.

I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.