Vision is nothing without a plan to execute it.

I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't deal with it, too bad.

You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.

Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my money into battle unprepared and undefended. I send it to conquer and take currency prisoner and bring it back to me.

My partners... taught me that in order to create wealth, I needed to pair up with people whose strengths compensated for my weaknesses.

I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn from all of them.

Downturns are the best time to start businesses because you develop discipline that's very lean and mean in terms of how to spend money. And those habits serve you very well in good times.

The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.

We need physical exercise to prepare our brain for long periods of concentration

Life is hard, money doesn't care, your tears don’t add value

If I were the president of the United States, I would make unions illegal. They no longer serve a functional purpose in democracy, in my view.

The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.

I am deeply superficial.

It's in the public domain. That's one of the reasons I do it so much. But luckily, it's a brilliant film [ Night Of The Living Dead]. Every horror aficionado must see that film at least once.

Elie [Wiesel], when you ask, "Why do I want to know," I'm trying to grab the holy. And I'm getting thrown back.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke.

And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the checkered shade. And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday.

Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.

To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober.