The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.

Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.

The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.

I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.

I'd say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that's the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.