The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
People would rather earn 60 grand in an area where their neighbours earn 40, than earn 80 in an area where their neighbours earn a hundred.
We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.
You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.
The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.
Richness, the ideas of having plenty of money, is not. . . an absolute state. Richness is about the amount of money you have compared to the people you see around you. It is about where you are in relation to others, and where they are in relation to you. . . and whether you can have the things you want and other people have.
But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.
I have no qualms about saying I am more confident in the medical treatment in America. The breast cancer survival rate is 20 per cent higher than in the UK.
I want to be better than five guys. I was that way when I used to box, I was that way in any sport. I want to compete with five other guys. If I beat five other guys, I'd like to see if I can beat six.
If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history.
Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it's a Weasel with a Cheese finish.