So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.

Money has no grey areas. You either make it or you lose it.

Steve Jobs had his critics. Some saw him as an egomaniac, and others, as a control freak.

Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.

I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance.

I do not own a single security anywhere that doesn't pay a dividend, and I formed a mutual-fund company with that very simple philosophy.

I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn from all of them.