No matter what happened to you in your past, you are not your past, you are the resources and the capabilities you glean from it. And that is the basis for all change.

You grow stronger from failure than you do from success.

Money doesn’t just buy you a better life, better food, better cars, better pussy — it also makes you a better person.

You are not the mistakes of your past, but the resources and capabilities that you have gleaned from your past.

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?

Best way to sell something: don't sell anything. Earn the awareness, respect and trust of those who might buy.

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.