Keep in mind the following: what you really value in life is ownership, not money. If ever there is a choice — more money or more responsibility — you must always opt for the latter. A lower - paying position that offers more room to make decisions and carve out little empires is infinitely preferable to something that pays well but constricts your movements.

A genuinely sound business principle will apply anywhere in life—in your friendships, in your marriage, anywhere.

Your lawyer’s job is to tell you the potential legal consequences of a decision or a course of action—not to give you business advice.

You must decide at the outset what degree of risk you are willing to assume and what kinds of investments are most suitable to your tax bracket. Finding your sleeping point is one of the most important investment steps you must take.

According to Buddhist teaching, we attain satisfaction not by indulgence of desires but by renunciation of clinging.

Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax.

Progress is more important than perfection.

The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal we must aspire to, the highest point of human rationality.

The spirituality of a community can be measured not merely by its doctrinal statement but by the passions that are most deeply aroused.

No one can give another person life skills. Each of us has to acquire them by doing the work of life. On our own.