To create a new business that makes money, and more significantly, employs others, and more significantly, gives a product to a customer that improves their life, is our greatest challenge, our greatest opportunity, and the greatest gift, far greater than any charity that we can give our fellow person.

It is thus hardly surprising that so many of the great minds in recent history have concerned themselves with economic matters. Indeed, they have come to regard economic theory in precisely the same way the ancient philosophers viewed the heavens - as the key to understanding and controlling our fate.

Prosperity belongs to those who learn new things the fastest.

I feel I'm doing God's work switching people from group plans to individual insurance.

Changes that used to take place in 50 years now happen in a handful of years . . . or even months. And how we deal with that changing technology explains almost everything.

Obesity is a prison; in the US we spend more to treat type 2 diabetes each year than is spent on education.

Before you invest in anything else, exhaust the possibilities of investing in your own business first.