Don't play with businesses that can't win. Businesses that are number 3, number 5 in their market - Christ couldn't fix those businesses. They're going to lose anyway.

The minute a man finds himself running around in a circle and not getting anywhere, he should set some definite point which he desires to reach, and then make everything he does assist him along to that end. When he has gained this point, he should then set another one higher up, and so on until his ultimate goal is reached

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.

There are many ways to run a successful company. What works once may never work again. What everyone tells you never to do may just work, once. There are no rules. You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over, and it's because you fall over that you learn to save yourself from falling over.

We saw that a thousand results weren't necessarily as useful as 10 good ones.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.