It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
I’ve never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I’ve never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me.
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
What’s a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.
Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.
Science leads you to killing people.
I have always been very diversified, so I have never suffered a catastrophic loss. I spread my money around the way a large institutional investor does. I use different brokerage firms. I manage some of my accounts myself...
Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.
It’s really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn’t even more fraud. After all, with no God, there’s no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
I think, there are many people who are much smarter than I am, and many, many, many who are much harder-working than I am, but in terms of the range of my activities, they’re unique.
And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens.
I don’t believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.
Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.
I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.