I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?

Few things in life are certain except death and being taxed.

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.

Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.

I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

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.