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

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.

For a start, the salary begins to have an attraction and addictiveness all of its own. A regular paycheck and crack cocaine have that in common. In addition, and more to the point, working too long for other people can blunt your desire to take risks. This last factor is crucial, because the ability to live with and embrace risk is what sets apart the financial winners and losers in the world.

Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.

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

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

You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care, you've won. I absolutely promise you, in every serious negotiation, the man or woman who doesn't care is going to win.