In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

I got an album concept called ‚Exit Strategy,‘ that might be one of my last ones. It’s a term they use in business when you build companies. You create an exit strategy as you make a company. You don’t wait till you’re five years in it; you create a exit strategy as you make the company.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

I guess that’s one of the things about growing up in the fifties – it never occurred to me that you wouldn’t be at least as successful as your parents.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

I haven’t been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I’ve been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don’t blow money. I don’t have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I’ve already had that experience.

Two kids in their dorm room can’t start anything important in space today. That’s why I want to take the assets I have from Amazon and translate that into the heavy-lifting infrastructure that will allow the next generation to have dynamic entrepreneurialism in space, to build that transportation network.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

The rich don’t work for money – the rich invent money.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

I like school and I like learning.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Being willing to donate the taxpayers‘ money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

Creationists make it sound as though a ‚theory‘ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music ‚made it‘ the same way. It’s all different. There’s no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‚Too much of a good thing can be wonderful‘.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.