It’s not about the money. Its about creating a business out of your life’s purpose and mission.
People with low financial literacy standards are often unable to take their ideas and create assets out of them.
I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.
Be sure to have friends who demand more of you rather than tell you why you cannot do what you want to do.
Rich don’t work for money. They work for assets.
Over the years I have found that many of the richest people in the world began their lives with the habit of tithing.
The size of your organization is directly related to your ability to enforce the rules.
I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.
The value of assets often increases exponentially while the value of your labor only increases incrementally.
I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.
It’s not what you have to “do” that needs to change. It’s first how you “think” that needs to change. It’s who you have to “be” in order to “do” what needs to be done.
An intelligent person hires people who are more intelligent than he is.
By giving kids an allowance, you teach that child to work for money rather than learn to create money.
Entrepreneurship is a process, not a job or profession. So be faithful to the process and remember that even when times are bad, the process will give you a glimpse of the future that lies ahead.
Failure inspires winners. And failure defeats losers. It is the biggest secret of winners. It’s the secret that loser do not know. The greatest secret of winners is that failure inspires winning; thus, they’re not afraid of losing.
When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.
I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It wasn’t my environment.
Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.
Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it’s probably a bad business in which to invest.
So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.