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

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

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

Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.

Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on the bean-counting side.

I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die.. and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.

America is not the center of the universe.