If you aren’t happy with what you’ve got now, what makes you think you’ll be happier with more?

Any problem you can solve with a check isn’t a problem, it’s an expense.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

J.P. Morgan was interested in buying a pearl pin. The jeweler he approached found the perfect pin and sent it in a box to Morgan with a bill for $5,000.

The following day the box was returned wirh a note from Morgan:

I like the pin, but I don’t like the price. If you will accept the enclosed check for $4,000, please send back the box which is sealed with the seal unbroken.”

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If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

It doesn’t matter how many pails of milk you spill. Just don’t lose the cow.

Nothing is more rewarding than to watch someone who says “…it can’t be done…” get interrupted by someone actually doing it.

Don’t ask what the world needs. Rather ask – what makes you come alive? Then go and do it! Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

“Having a smoking area in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool.”

At the age of 6 I wanted to be a cook.
At 7 I wanted to be Napoleon.
And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the Richest People in America. And if I’m not there, I go to work.