Clean up your own backyard. Change by example. Just be the way you want others to be and hope they pay attention.

I think everything in your life's your own damn fault and that's my simple philosophy in that, and I think you're broke because you want to be just like you're fat because you want to be or stupid because you want to be or unemployed, it must be because you want to be. Otherwise, it'd be different.

Success is not a secret – it never has been. There are only a few really good ideas and not one of them is a secret.

I think one of the mistakes typically with authors is they have written more books than they've read.

I'm not so good at just throwing out facts and figures and education and all that. I tell stories to captivate, that give people... that touch people emotionally.

Do what you say you are going to do, when you say you are going to do it, in the way you said you were going to do it.

My brand was always going to be based on my personality. I didn't want people hiring me for what I said. I wanted them hiring me for who I am.