If you look at the CEOs of some the most successful companies in the world like IKEA, they never fly first class. They always go economy.

My hero is me. Why? Because I was a poor little kid who was told, `Hey stupid, can`t you speak English?` Now all those people work for me. Despite whatever circumstances I came across, I was always able to rise to the top and there`s only one way to do that - by being selfish, but also by believing in yourself. Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, `Do or do not. There is no try.

Wealth for its own sake is an empty shell. Wealth that includes making other people's lives better will reward you even more than the beautiful mansion you live in.

By and large, Americans close their ears to anything not in English. That's stupid because there's some great music around the world that we should be listening to.

You and I and everyone else have the attention span of gnats. And that means that saying or doing anything once simply doesn't work.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.