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.

Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.

Knowing isn't doing; doing isn't knowing. Nothing but the knowing and the doing gets it done.

The key to successful business is self belief and application.

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.

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

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