One method of staying ahead of rising asset prices and the declining dollar is to think bigger and come up with better plans. As important as financial and business planning is a plan for personal development and self-improvement. I'm often asked to invest in people's business plans, and one of the reasons I turn many of them down is because a big plan requires a big person who's spent time on personal development. In a lot of cases, a business plan is far bigger than the person with the plan - that is, the dream is bigger than the dreamer.

There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary, and poor is eternal.

My father was a university professor and his thing was tenure. Any time I hear a university professor say tenure, I hear the word dinosaur. You're not supposed to be getting tenure. You're supposed to be figuring out how you can teach more students at a better price and more effectively. That's your job.

If you're still doing what mommy and daddy said for you to do (go to school, get a job, and save money), you're losing.

Sometimes we are so busy putting everyone else first... we lose sight of who we really are and what we want.

Someone who seeks low-risk investments never really feels investing is safe and someone who is always right eventually winds up wrong

Friends and family will tell you why your ideas won't work. Most are left-brained employees and specialists and NOT entrepreneurs.