I've never had a really creative idea sitting at my desk. All the big ideas that made a difference happened when I was playing outside.

I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.

In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.

Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.

I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

Great sales people [don't] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.

If your house has been on the market for more than four months, take it off the market and re-list it in two months as 'new.'