I've always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it.

You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world.

Buy what's deliverable, not what could be.

Central planning didn't work for Stalin or Mao, and it won't work for an entrepreneur either.

Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure.

When I care about something, I care about something. I think I have an obligation as an American to - and as a citizen, as - as a human being, to help others. Smoking is going to kill a billion people this century. I've put six hundred million dollars from my own money into trying to stop the tobacco companies from getting kids to smoke and convincing adults that it's not in their health.

And I think the more money you put in people's hands, the more they will spend. And if they don't spend it, they invest it. And investing it is another way of creating jobs. It puts money into mutual funds or other kinds of banks that can go out and make loans, and we need to do that.