You'll never get rich by working for your boss.

It's very difficult to be continuously charitable in a capitalistic society. You've also got to make sure that you can pay everyone who works for you.

You have an advantage that neither education nor upbringing can buy - you have almost nothing. And therefore you have almost nothing to lose.

I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More start-ups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.

America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.

The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.