If you can somehow think and dream of success in small steps, every time you make a step, every time you accomplish a small goal, it gives you confidence to go on from there.

What a relief it was to discover that I wasnt realy an idiot! I simply had a learning disability.

When I go in to see people - and I sell an occasional ad now - I never say, 'Help me because I am black' or 'Help me because I am a minority.' I always talk about what we can do for them.

I'm convinced that the only way to get ahead in this world is to live and sell dangerously. You've got to live beyond your means. You've got to commit yourself to an act or vision that pulls you further than you want to go and forces you to use your hidden strengths.

You spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love.

Failure is a word I don't accept.

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.