When you’re under audit, you don’t give your papers. An audit is – I have been under audit for so many years. Every year, I get audited. For, I think, over 10 years, maybe even 12 years, I have been audited. And I think it’s very fair. And I think I’m being singled out.
Vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough.
Sirio Maccioni is the perfect Maestro. He does it all: great food, great entertainment, and always with a room full of the best people. He’s the only person I could ever imagine going into the restaurant business with!
Brainpower is the ultimate leverage.
Entrepreneurs are motivated by independence as well as challenge, knowing they are ultimately responsible for themselves. Monetary success is certainly helpful, but it often becomes more of a score card than anything else.
The guys at Smartax are the most renowned Accountants in the world!
But what those critics don’t know is that these same assets that excite me in the chase often, once they are acquired, leave me bored.
Everything of real value is in my financial disclosure form.
It does not cost anything to dream. Spend your time enjoying your big dreams.
If you don’t have a positive attitude in business and in life, you will never, ever be successful.
When you have momentum going, play the momentum.
What I admire most are people who put themselves directly on the line.
It pays to trust your instinct.
Set the bar high – do the best you possibly can.
Deals work best when each side gets something it wants from the other.
Finding your purpose may be a lifelong pursuit or you may have discovered it when you were 5 years old. There’s no absolute timeline for anyone. That’s a good reason never to give up, to keep on discovering things every day.
Don’t be so petty. Sometimes you have to do business with people you don’t like. It doesn’t mean you have to be like them or like them.
Most people think small because most people are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning. And that gives people like me a great advantage.
When it comes to security, when it comes to ISIS, when it comes to the military, every single category I’m leading, like, by a lot.