As I said, I wish I could say it was easy. It wasn't, but it wasn't hard either. But without a strong reason or purpose, anything in life is hard.

Would you have thought that piling up money and getting more of it actually gets rid of it fastest? Of course No, we as people trying to attain financial independence think that more money means a brighter future. However, the recipe is not to pile it up but to be smart.

The basic lesson for any person striving to achieve financial independence is to understand the difference between an asset and liability. Focus on things that put money on the table (Asset) and avoid things that remove it (Liability).

Most people fail to realize that in life, it’s not how much money you make, it’s how much money you keep.

Most of the people don't even realize that there is a way to earn money without being employed. The rich ones do, they have been given this knowledge by their parents and you need to get that knowledge too.

All it takes to start your own business is ambition and drive and nothing else. Don't play safe, take risks.Don't think "I cant afford it" but figure out and find the answer to "How can i afford it".

Invest your time and energy building for your own self, starting your business, own a corporation. Enjoy the tax breaks that you will never get as an employee, even if you business were to go down, your house will still be safe. Be smart about it and gain eternal financial security.

Work on interpersonal and persuasion skills. If you can master the art of selling a product, you will find yourself in a sea of opportunities waiting to be grabbed. Invent money, discover new ways, don't be stricken by the stereotypes because there is always way.

Treat all your jobs as a learning platform for yourself. Don't make your life about earning bread and butter, strengthen the will to grow and prepare yourself to endure, because it is hard but so much worth it.

If you’re the kind of person who has no guts, you just give up every time life pushes you. If you’re that kind of person, you’ll live all your life playing it safe, doing the right things, saving yourself for something that never happens. Then, you die a boring old man.

The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind. If it is trained well, it can create enormous wealth in what seems to be an instant.

Building something from scratch and holding onto your determination no matter what is all that it takes. You will fall, but you need to get up, whether its your financial life or social life. Stick to this.

In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.

Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

Unless they're a fugitive or a felon, or adjudicated mentally ill, we're not against them buying guns at all.

I will never relent in defending America - whatever it takes.

The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a bus, on a field trip. It was called 'Mystery Man,' and in retrospect, it was the beginning of my exploration of what it was like to have a man in your life, because I didn't.

Nobody knows me.

NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits.

I can't write unless I'm overlooking water.

I thought I was the coolest kid in the world, so I wound up being the coolest kid in the world.

Whatever I won in cycling, I won with my own skills. I never won anything I couldn't win. For example, I never won a time trial at 60 kph, whereas others have and maybe still do.

I believe in feeling connected. Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds. But there is a great feeling that happens, that is telling you, I don't want to leave this room!

When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.

My father is a businessman, and my mother is a schoolteacher.

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

I would have to have people totally committed to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of this United States. And many of the Muslims, they are not totally dedicated to this country. They are not dedicated to our Constitution. Many of them are trying to force Sharia law on the people of this country.

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.

It is nerve-wracking watching my kids' games.

In my situation there are often things I need to do for the team, so when I get the chance to relax it's all I want to do.

People said, That's great for your career, but what have you done? I kept feeling I had to defend myself.

The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy; they were on the fringes of society themselves.

We want to raise the art of living well.

I am Puerto Rican. I think Latinas are sexy, and being one, it has influenced a lot of my style, but being an official Los Angelite, this town has influenced most of my daily style, which is relaxed & easy.

When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.

Anyone who has ever sat in a train as it rushes through a dark night will know that sometimes there are long minutes when the coaches slide smoothly along without so much as a shudder.

If I am to be a chauvinist pig, I want to be the number one pig.

To say you want to be a director is to risk sounding obnoxious, pretentious, arrogant, and I think women are more fearful of sounding that way than men are.