You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.

When people are too present, too familiar or too in our face, something happens to us psychologically. We begin to tune them out, we begin to get sick of them, we begin to know them so well and become so familiar with who they are that we loose a bit of respect for them. You pass a certain threshold with the fact that you're too present in their lives, too much in their face and once that threshold is passed you're never going to repair it they have lost a certain respect for you.

All the most successful people nowadays who are truly successful and innovative in their field are not people motivated by money.

Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous

Your ability to work with people directly affects your ability to get work done in the world.

Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others—that is too high a price to pay.

Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.