You are not paid to work hard. In fact, you are not paid for effort at all. You are paid for results. It's not what you do; it's what you get done.

I think it's easy to get a book in a bookstore. I think it's just damn near impossible to get a book out of a bookstore.

Make yourself happy and surround yourself with people who are cool with that.

Be the person others can count on to get things done

I looked at the fact that people were in such financial trouble I said well people are broke because they want to be.

If you're selling information - and I have a lot of friends who write a lot of bestselling books and they're selling information. They don't need to have a picture on the cover at all because they are not important. They're secondary to their information. To me, the information is secondary to me.

If it's a good idea, do it today. Not tomorrow. A good idea rarely gets better over time.