“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing - the ability to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.”

“One of the hardest decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.”

“If wealth is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.”

“One of the advantages of living in a constitutional federal republicis that we have the ability, if not the duty, as citizens to repair orreplace those acts of legislation under which we have agreed to live.We must act when it has become evident that said legislationno longer serves us as a people or advances the principles uponwhich this nation was founded, one of these being “the pursuit ofhappiness,” which may only be secured through wealth creation.If it burdens the debt obligation of the government, it cannotbe creating wealth. If it does not advance the cause of regainingAmerican competitive dominance in the global marketplace, it is notcreating wealth. If legislation and regulation were proposed thattaught people how to fish instead of providing fish, then the unemployedwould find a way to create jobs for each other. Wealthcreation is mankind’s natural objective when given the opportunityand the tools.”

“You've got to find it (the path to wealth) on your own...No one else can find it for you.”

“Unless you choose to do great things with your life it makes no difference how much money you make or how much power you have.”

“I do not believe in diversification. Take a close look atsome of the greatest entrepreneurs in U.S. history. Henry Ford neverdiversified; Bill Gates didn’t diversify. I strongly believe that the bestway to create real wealth is to put one’s eggs in one basket and watchthat basket (the right one) very carefully. In fact, one can go brokediversifying.”