The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.

You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.

A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making.

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.

Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.

As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.

As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and lots of T.V. news interview shows.

Darwinism doesn't explain where gravity comes from. It doesn't explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn't explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn't explain where matter came from.

Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and I found a lot to write about.

I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.

I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.

I am scared of running out of money.

I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.

I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?

I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy.

I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.

I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period.

I don't really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.

I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.

I tell you why I don't think I will ever vote for a Democrat, if I may say so. Because for me, the number one issue is right to life, and I don't think the Democrats are very good on the right-to-life issue.

I think it's criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they're paid.

I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.

I'd say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that's the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.

If Iran and North Korea, by some horrible, devilish, nightmarish scenario, got together and went to war at the same time, one against Saudi Arabia and one against South Korea, I don't know what we would do about that. I don't know that we could stop them short of using nuclear weapons.

If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.

If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.

If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?

If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.

If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.