The nasty little secret was that I couldn't read worth a darn. In my case, I still read very slowly to this moment.

Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.

I did as much as I could: raising chickens, pushing an ice-cream cart, bagging walnuts, driving a tractor on a beet farm, working on the railroad. I think this eclectic career helped me a lot in life.

At the end of every day, having a clientele that speaks well of you, that's the largest source of business. I don't care what kind of business you're in. Clients referring us to their friends or relatives is so much more powerful than any advertising we could ever do.

The nasty little secret was that I couldn't read worth a darn. In my case, I still read very slowly to this moment.

I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares.

People succeed at just about anything they're genuinely enthusiastic about.