In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

Only the educated are free.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

I remember flying in, driving down 101 in a cab, and passing by all these tech companies like Yahoo! I remember thinking, ‚Maybe someday we’ll build a company. This probably isn’t it, but one day we will.‘

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

People want you to fail.

‚Educational‘ refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

We’ve always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It’s lasted now about 14 years, and we’re very pleased to have survived it.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn’t even go to the classes.

Teachers are expected to be teachers, psychiatrists, nurses, sociologists, psychologists, surrogate moms or dads, as the case may be.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

I believe – we all pay taxes. I’m happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That’s going to bother you.

We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

And you know, I’ve had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on.

The educated Southerner has no use for an ‚r‘, except at the beginning of a word.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.