There is no substitute for knowledge. To this day, I read three newspapers a day. It is impossible to read a paper without being exposed to ideas. And ideas - more than money - are the real currency for success.

Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.

How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook.

School boards are, for the most part ,made up of political wannabes who see a board seat as a stepping stone for political office, or well-meaning parents who represent an ethnic group or geography, or have some other narrow interests. Few people on them understand what governance is about.

I never play golf because it takes too long, and the business connections it produces can be made just as easily over an early breakfast.

Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational.

No one ever made a million bucks by being cautious or timid or reasonable.