I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.

The bottom line is that if I did it, you can do it. I got rich without the benefit of a college education or a penny of capital but making many errors along the way. I went from being a pauper.. a hippie dropout on the dole, living in a crummy room without the proverbial pot to piss in, without even the money to pay the rent, without a clue as to what to do next.. to being rich...

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

I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.

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

I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'