Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

My drive is other people’s success.

Choose people who lift you up.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

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.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

I urge everyone to be trendsetters for Azza Suleiman. Let’s make it one fashion which everyone will want to follow.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

I am who I am today because of my mother.