Success is about making your life a special version of unique that fits who you are - not what other people want you to be.

A long list. From getting cut from the high school basketball team, to getting fired from jobs, getting credit cards rejected and cut up. Rejection has only been a distraction, not a roadblock. “Every no gets me closer to a yes,” was the saying I used to use.

I create offbeat advice; I don't follow it. I rarely take third-party advice on my investments.

If you're looking where everybody else is looking, you're looking in the wrong spot.

Nothing can kill the future dreams and goals of a new graduate than 50k of debt like an anvil over your head. I got to Indiana University not because I visited the campus and loved everything about it. I picked Indiana University because I saw a list of the top 10 business schools and it was the cheapest.

Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.

I think one of the biggest curses in the U.S. is that we have only two political parties.