When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice - change this, change that - and one thing that I didn't do was fire anybody.

I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy.

Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people.

It's not in the dreaming, it's in the doing.

If given a choice between investing in someone who has read REWORK or has an MBA, I’m investing in REWORK every time. A must read for every entrepreneur.

Always wake up with a smile knowing that today you are going to have fun accomplishing what others are too afraid to do.

The only thing in your control is effort. That's all, and that's everything.

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.

I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet - I want to know who the morons are.

It takes time, it's a grind. There are no shortcuts. You've got to grind and grind.

... insanity is never reasonable.

Borrow money only for an education that will yield enough of a return in the job market to allow you to pay your loans back.

For life is a journey through a wilderness

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.

Without preservation and cultivation of the spiritual, your material success will be as ashes in your mouths.

Most of the writers I know have somehow managed to stay in touch with that inner child who's never heard of such a thing as an internal editor.

Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion.

I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties.

Every second you spend wishing God would take away a struggle is a forfeited opportunity to overcome.

I grow numb; I grow stiff. How shall I break up this numbness which discredits my sympathetic heart?