If a man could give birth it would be to a book – it’s an 18-month gestation period.
I never, ever, ever let emotion get in the way of an investment.
You either make it illegal, in which case you support a huge underground economy or you tax it within the limits people can afford.
I like gold because it is a stabilizer; it is an insurance policy.
So much of life is a negotiation – so even if you’re not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.
The road to riches is never straight and narrow. It can be riddled with financial land mines.
I’m not planning on giving my kids any of my wealth. They know when their education is over, I’m pushing them out of the nest. The bird you see dead under the nest is the one who didn’t think about the future.
We need physical exercise to prepare our brain for long periods of concentration.
You’d rather own gold; not the miner.
I look at Twitter as brand building.
For whatever reason somebody can be convinced to buy a PC, it opens up a whole new market for all of us in the software business.
The practical reality of managing cars in the family – I do 36-month leases. I think they’re horrible investments. And you want to give them back after their warranty is over.
Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas.
Filming ‘The Road to Riches’ was surprisingly difficult for me. I learned that going back to career successes and failures can be emotionally exhausting as you are forced to revisit the euphoric highs and painful lows in high speed.
All businesses require capital, management and labor, and business executives, wanting to grow and maintain profitable enterprises, have a strong incentive to keep costs, including labor, as low as possible.
A lot of people have said a lot of great things about Steve Jobs. And for good reason: he built the world’s second-most valuable company, with billions in profits and products that have improved every aspect of our lives. But Steve didn’t get there by being a soft, fluffy, Kumbaya-type leader.
There are a lot of idiot fund managers out there who add no value to the process at all.
Television is the most interesting hobby I’ve ever had.
Steve Jobs had his critics. Some saw him as an egomaniac, and others, as a control freak.
Money has no grey areas. You either make it or you lose it.