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

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

People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.

You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.

Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do.

If you are unwilling to fail, sometimes publicly and even catastrophically, you will never be rich.

Teamwork is the glue which binds losers together