I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care.

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

Having a great idea is simply not enough. The eventual goal is vastly more important than any idea. It is how ideas are implemented that counts in the long run

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.

If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.

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...