I think Amazon is the greatest start-up and the greatest company in the world. The way they are using new technologies is not just disrupting retail, it's getting ready to disrupt everything.

I helped start a ceramics company called CPS Technologies. We took it public in 1987 at $12 a share. Three months later, there was this horrible cliff: Black Monday. Fidelity had bought 15 percent of our stock, and their algorithm caused them to dump it all onto the market that day. We dropped from $12 to $2.

There was nothing special about me; there are boxers in Belfast who are more skilled but I had a bit between my teeth that drives me on.

came trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to himself as he came, 'Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess!

It's all her fancy: she never executes nobody, you know.

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

If people threw away their money as thoughtlessly as they throw away their time, we would think them insane. Yet time is infinitely more precious than money because money can't buy time.

Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.

and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!

Keep working on a plan. Make no little plans. Make the biggest plan you can think of and spend the rest of your life carrying it out.

Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.