The best place to succeed is where you are with what you've got.

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

We are all salesmen every day of our lives. We are selling our ideas, our plans, our enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact.

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

It's fun to play around... it's human nature to try to select the right horse... But for the average person, I'm more of an indexer... The predictability is so high... For 10, 15, 20 years you'll be in the 85th percentile of performance. Why would you screw it up?

I am like a chief. I like to taste the food. If it tastes bad, I don't serve it. I'm constantly monitoring what we do, and I'm always looking for better ways we can provide financial services, ways that would make me happy if I were a client.

The best place to succeed is where you are with what you've got.