Financial independence is about having more choices.

Don't be addicted to money. Work to learn. don't work for money. Work for knowledge.

Ephemeralization means the ability to do everything with nothing, or leverage, or doing more with less. So, as a businessman, I'm constantly ephemeralizing, figuring out how I can do more and more for less and less.

Rather than risk starting their own businesses, most people seek safer environments, preferring job security to freedom and a steady paycheck to greater wealth. Their fear of failing is greater than the joy of freedom.

You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work.

Over the years I have found that many of the richest people in the world began their lives with the habit of tithing.

In school, you are given the lesson first. On the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.