We tell children what they should do when they grow up so we can impress the people next door.

So take the time to think. Discover your real reason for being here and then have the courage to act on it.

My love of books was all that saved me.

I don't think about what I'll get from someone else. Instead, all I care about is what I can give. And that, my friend, has made me a very happy man.

Mistake is a mistake only if you make it twice.

Be the Mick Jagger of the mailroom, the Warren Buffet of bookkeeping and the Bono of stapler selling.

And the dangerous thing about excuses is that if we recite them enough times, we actually come to believe they are true.