Pay off your debt first. Freedom from debt is worth more than any amount you can earn.
I’m the one guy who says don’t force the stupid people to be quiet – I want to know who the morons are.
Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you.
It takes time, it’s a grind. There are no shortcuts. You’ve got to grind and grind.
Creating opportunities means looking where others are not.
Kids should go to college, but they should go to the best school they can afford to get through with minimal or no debt. That might mean going to a community college or an inexpensive local state school. Whatever it takes.
All you need is a laptop or a PC and an Internet connection and you can pretty much do almost anything and create almost any type of company.
I’m the luckiest guy in the world. I wake up every day just fired up. My one rule is, don’t let anyone pinch me, because I don’t want to wake up.
One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is that we lie to ourselves. We don’t step back and look at ourselves like a competitor would.
Know your stuff. Have an angle. Know how to grow business, how to develop products, have patents and an undeveloped market that could be huge.
Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.
Perfectionism is the enemy of profitability.
I still work hard to know my business. I’m continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I’m always selling. Always.
Once you have found out what you love to do, there is only one goal: to be the best in the world at it.
Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.
I love helping entrepreneurs. It’s something I really have fun doing. It’s like planting a little seed and watching it grow. Any time I can help somebody, that’s a good thing. It’s fun. If I get to make some money at it, it’s even better.
I rarely think the market is right. I believe non dividend stocks aren’t much more than baseball cards. They are worth what you can convince someone to pay for it.
As processor speeds and shared processors create cheap unlimited processing power we will be able to turn our bodies into a math equation that can be crossed against the properties of medicine and nature to create medicine unique to each individual.
I’m always afraid of failing. It’s great motivation to work harder.
I love to compete. I want to get out there and kick your ass in the business world. That is what inspires me.