Be good at something. It makes you valuable.

Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.

Because you’re such a good salesman, and if you go work for a company, they’re going to use you as a salesman. If you’re going to be a salesman, you might as well be selling something worthwhile, like education

Luck is indeed where preparation meets opportunity.

No job is beneath you. You ought to be thrilled you got a job in the mailroom And when you get there, here's what you do: Be really great at sorting mail.

Don't bail; the best pieces of gold are at the bottom of the barrel of crap.

Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories and they will figure out how those stories apply to them.