“I don't worry about maintaining the quality of my life, because every day I work on improving it.”

“The difference between success and failure is not which stock you buy or which piece of real estate you buy, it's asset allocation.”

“If you lose 50%, it takes 100% to get back to where you started-and that takes something you can never get back: time.”

“We're emotionally unfit. We expect things to be given to us that other generations had to earn. We think we're supposed to get homes with no money down and be supported by the government if we're unemployed.”

“Take massive action. So many people wait until they have all the answers.”

“We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of the invisible world, through a few brains. The arts and institutions of men are created out of thought. The powers that make the capitalist are metaphysical, the force of method and force of will makes trade, and builds towns.”

“Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is charactered in his brain, therefore he is the prophet and discoverer of her secrets. Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.”

“Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.”