There’s no way to succeed in business without the highest ethical standards.

When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.

There's no nobility in poverty.

The year I turned 26, as the head of my own brokerage firm, I made $49 million, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.

You don’t choose who you fall in love with, do you? And once you do fall in love—that obsessive sort of love, that all-consuming love, where two people can’t stand to be apart from each other for even a moment—how are you supposed to let a love like that pass you by?

The story that you tell yourself is exactly what holds you back from being successful.

If I earn a million dollars a week and the average American earns a thousand dollars a week, then when I spend twenty thousand dollars on something it’s the equivalent of the average American spending twenty dollars on something, right?