A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn’t go by yourself.

I’m very motivated by money. And I found that money makes you happy. So the old adage is WRONG. I’m happiER with money than I was in my studio apartment for seven years.

I think that religion stops people from thinking. I think it justifies crazies. I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative.

The greatest gift that I have is finding people who know more than I do — and learning from them.

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I’ve made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.

Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.

You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.