An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.

So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

Education is the foundation of success. Just as scholastic skills are vitally important, so are financial skills and communication skills.

"Why is the creative entrepreneur the riskiest type to be?" I asked. "Because being creative means you are often a pioneer. It is easy to copy a successful and proven product. It is also less risky. If you learn to innovate, create, or invent your way to success, you are an entrepreneur creating new value rather than an entrepreneur who wins by copying."

If you had seen me back in high school, there's no way you would have ever said I would become an author or teacher because I was a horrible student.

I can see being kind to people, but I don't think giving them money solves the problem. I think it makes the problem worse and it prolongs the ultimate, inevitable end anyway.