Perhaps without that adversity I might not have been able to preserve later on when my financial burdens were redoubled. I learned then how to keep problems from crushing me. I refused to worry about more than one thing at a time, and I would not let useless fretting about a problem, no matter how important, keep me from sleeping.

As an investor-entrepreneur, I've always tried to be contrarian, to go against the crowd, to identify opportunities in places where people are not looking.

If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Crises, reversals, obstacles - these are always encountered by all upper-management employees during their careers. The value of a man under such circumstances is not dependent only on the way in which he confronts adversity, but also in his ability to turn adversity to his own advantage.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.