It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‚Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.‘ See the positive in negative events.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

It’s rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

I don’t see myself as ever being like anybody else.

Character is destiny.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.

I have a self-defense mind. I’ve had it all my life.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself – let’s put it that way.

For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

I grew up cursing a lot.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

He who is contented is rich.

I’m chasing perfection.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.