The big thing in life is to focus on providing more value to people than they expect. The rest comes then.

Forget purpose. It’s okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives.

Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.

Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.

I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.

Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.

The only way to make real wealth is to get rid of your salary. In a salary, by definition, you are creating wealth for others, and you are creating a chain and handcuffs for yourself.