People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show.
Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
Don't forget to eat a lot of greens and fish oil pills. Those are two of the best things to keep your skin glowing.
To bring down your credit card balances, write down the benefits of reducing your debt. No more gnawing feeling that you're throwing money away, perhaps. More money flowing to other financial objectives. Then consult the list when you have doubts.
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
What do you want? What do you want your life to be? What do you want your testimony to be? Go for it!
If some nation says to us, 'You can have aid, but you have to end confrontation,' then I say, 'Go to hell with your aid.'
My go-go dancing was not your typical go-go dancing: I really was doing performance art. I would do dramatic, elaborate lyricals across the bar. I learned a lot, actually, as an artist during that time.
To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent.
If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
Getting to work at Lick was like being touched by the wand of your fairy godmother.
The bigger your platform gets - it kind of feels like being Godzilla sometimes. You make a slight move and you can accidentally knock over a building. It's a tough thing to navigate.
I don't want to be viewed as a womaniser or whatever. I don't like going crazy crazy, I like having fun but it's nice to wake up in your own bed, isn't it?
The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
Golden rule of life: never underestimate your rivals.
We think of computers as smart and powerful machines. But your goldfish is smarter.
No one at Goldman Sachs gets paid out of his or her own P&L. It matters how your business is doing, but it matters more how the firm as a whole is doing.
A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. A lot of guys can go out and hit a golf ball, but they have no idea how to manage what they do with the ball. I've won as many golf tournaments hitting the ball badly as I have hitting the ball well.
