I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

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

Many times I can see a solution to something differently and quicker than other people. I see the end zone and say 'This is where I want to go.'

I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

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.

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.

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?