I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.

Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.

You'll never get rich by working for your boss.

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

Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More start-ups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.

Everything I publish is for my readers.

Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.