To build wealth today, you must be in your own business.

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing.

If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead -- if you strike oil.

Each [of my wives] was jealous and resentful of my preoccupation with business. Yet none showed any visible aversion to sharing in the proceeds.

A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you are a business failure.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.