I cannot abide being bored.

False praise is worse than no praise.

Anyone not busy learning is busy dying.

Everything I publish is for my readers.

Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.

America is not the center of the universe.

Whosoever plants a tree, Winks at immortality.

You'll never get rich by working for your boss.

Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.

Teamwork is the glue which binds losers together

You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.

Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.

You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.

Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.

Do not be shy to call customers who owe you money. It works.

Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.

Few things in life are certain except death and being taxed.

The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.

The key to successful business is self belief and application.

I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.

Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.

What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?

Most of the worst errors I made in my life came from forgetting to act small.

Without self belief nothing can be accomplished. With it, nothing is impossible.

If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it.. it's cheaper in the long run.

The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!

The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.

I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.

I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.

I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care.

Knowing isn't doing; doing isn't knowing. Nothing but the knowing and the doing gets it done.

People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.

It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.

There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.

I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive.

I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.

If you are unwilling to fail, sometimes publicly and even catastrophically, you will never be rich.

The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.

Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.

If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.

Say to yourself: The world is full of money. Some of it has my name on it. All I have to do is collect it.

I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.

America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.

The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.

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