Virgil

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

It’s always good to be underestimated.

Many people who want to be great aren’t willing to do the work to make it possible!

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them.

I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell and laughs. But I do sometimes laugh when people fall down.

Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.

Successful people tend to become more successful because they are always thinking about their successes.

If you are not willing to learn no one can help you. If you are determined to learn no one can stop you.

In a lot of ways it is easier to do things on a large scale. It is easier to build a skyscraper in Manhattan than it is to buy a bungalow in the Bronx. For one thing, it takes just as much time to close a big deal as it does to close a small deal. You will endure as much stress and aggravation; you will have all the same headaches and problems. It is easier to finance a big deal. Bankers would much rather lend money for a big project than for a small one. They are more comfortable investing money in a big prestigious building than they are a rundown house in a bad section of town. If you succeed with the big project, you stand to gain a lot more money.

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot have, but perseverance all can have.