LARRY ELLISON, THE CEO OF ORACLE, MAY have a million times more money than me, but he isn’t going to live a million times longer than me, watch a million times more sunsets than me, make love to a million times more women than me, drink a million times more fine wines than me, listen to a million times more Beethoven string quartets than me, or have a million times more grandchildren than me. Human beings don’t scale.

Finding and implementing your own Evil Plan is without question one of the greatest things you can do with the brief time you’re allotted on this earth.

Failure’s easy. Success isn’t.

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience

Avoid “complicated” like the plague.

Everybody needs an Evil Plan that gets them the hell out of the rat race, away from lousy bosses, away from boring, dead-end jobs that they hate.

I feel like a hippie in a drum circle.

Sometimes you have to walk through the puddles to get to the sunshine.

It's a Boat Daddy

• The following conversation occurred between my 4 year old son and I after I saw a small paper sack (part of it anyway) folded like a bowl and full of multi-colored yarn.
• Me (looking puzzled): G, what is this thing full of yarn?
• G: It's a boat daddy.
• Me: A boat? Why does it have all this yarn in it?
• G (as if I should know): Because it's a boat full of yarn.
• My wife tells me later it was supposed to be a nest. But G insisted it was a boat. He apparently had another kid saying it was a boat too.

Impossible is not a word, it’s just a reason for someone not to try.

If you work just for money, you’ll never make it. But if you love what you are doing and always put the customer first, success will be yours.

I don’t wear this hat because Tiger’s good at cheating on his wife. I wear it because he’s the best golfer in the world.

Life is a matter of luck and the odds in favor of success are in no way enhanced by extreme caution.