“I talk about my daily dozen in the book [ Today Matters]. Twelve things that are certainly attainable by any of us that we need to manage every day.”

“An idea is worthless unless you use it.”

“Nothing is as hard as it looks; everything is more rewarding than you expect; and if anything can go right it will and at the best possible moment.”

“You don't become a success when you get your diploma, you became a success when you decided to go to college when you get your diploma you get the rewards of success.”

“Every major difficulty you face in life is a fork in the road. You choose which track you will head down, toward breakdown or breakthrough.”

“Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares,And think perchance they'll sell; if not,The lustre of the better yet to showShall show the better.”

“The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.”

“In finance everything that is agreeable is unsoundand everything that is sound is disagreeable.”