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

It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.

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.

Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.

America is not the center of the universe.

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.

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.