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

The #1 guideline to success is you must be in business for yourself. When you work for someone else, you sell your time at wholesale to your employer, who then re-sells it at retail to the customer.

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

In business, as in politics, it is never easy to go against the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority. The businessman who moves counter to the tide of prevailing opinion must expect to be obstructed, derided and damned.

....remember, a billion dollars isn't worth what it used to be.

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

There may be some substitute for hard facts, but if there is, I have no idea what it can be.