If you're willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create your own luck

The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.

In 1980, Atari was bringing in around two billion dollars in revenue and Chuck E. Cheese's some five hundred million. I still didn't feel too bad that I had turned down a one-third ownership of Apple - although I was beginning to think it might turn out to be a mistake.

The truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination.

In 1980, business at my company, Chuck E. Cheese's, was thriving and I was feeling flush. So I bought a very large house on the Champ de Mars in Paris, right between the Eiffel Tower and the Ecole Militaire. The home was quite amazing: At six stories, it spanned 15,000 square feet and featured marble staircases and a swimming pool in the basement.

We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.

Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.