Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome.

Business happens over years and years. Value is measured in the total upside of a business relationship, not by how much you squeezed out in any one deal.

When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?

I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet - I want to know who the morons are.

Pay off your debt first. Freedom from debt is worth more than any amount you can earn.

You could be beaten down by anybody and by everybody and it doesn't matter what everybody else thinks it's how you see yourself and what your own dreams are. And, you know, anybody who started a business and build a business knows there's going to be lots of times when you feel beaten down and you need some motivation and that's when I turn to that book among others.