You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.

Money is color-blind, race-blind, sex-blind, degree-blind, and couldn't care less who brought you up or in what circumstances.

Great Expectations [book by Charles Dickens] has been described as "Dickens's harshest indictment of society." Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.

Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.

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

Without self belief nothing can be accomplished. With it, nothing is impossible.

It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.