I like money, but it’s never been about the money.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We’ll break out of it. It takes time.

A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don’t know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn’t have cash on him.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Act, and God will act.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

You have to be someone.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I’m willing and I’m eager, and not just about my writing – I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?