One can best prepare themselves for the economic future by investing in your own education. If you study hard and learn at a young age, you will be in the best circumstances to secure your future. Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

If you’re in the luckiest 1% of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%. The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything. It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you who you’ll turn out to be. The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes. Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that is changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

I don’t believe in short-term goals. I believe in long-term vision.

When you start with a dream and work with passion, success is inevitable. I don’t believe in work-life balance. I believe in work-life integration. Make your work and life meaningful and fulfilling, and they will complement each other.

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads and dare to carry that out in your life. The moral, in one word, is that you are divine.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person is the most successful.

If anything turns you weak physically, intellectually, and spiritually, reject it like it’s poison. Take up an idea, devote yourself, struggle in patience, and the sun will rise.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. I don’t believe in taking the right decisions, I take decisions and then make them right.

He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. Enemies strike at weak points.

A person becomes great not by sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities.

A crow does not become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building.

He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy. There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. Enemies strike at weak points.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge. Leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

The soul is your temple. Education beats the beauty and the youth. Good behavior wins even an enemy. A man is great by deeds, not by birth. Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

The only way to win is to not be afraid of losing. The greatest failure is not to try. I don’t believe in leaving things for luck. I believe in hard work and preparation. Never forget your roots and always be proud of where you come from.

The soul is neither born and nor does it die. Always follow your inner self and do what it says. Dissolves bad habits, evil thoughts & Negative emotions.

God is not confined to idols or places of worship. True divinity lives within your feelings, kindness, love, and compassion. When your heart is pure and your intentions are honest, your emotions become a holy connection with God.

I do not know what the future holds, but I do know that I’m going to be positively surprised. If you want to walk fast, walk alone. But if you want to walk far, walk together.

That one is wise who does not deviate from the higher goals of life rooted as he is in Self-knowledge, Endeavour, forbearance and adherence to dharma. Wise whose actions or endeavours are not obstructed by cold, heat, fear, love, affluence or poverty.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you. As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it. Till the enemy’s weakness is known, he should be kept on friendly terms.

Arise, awake, and don’t stop till you reach your goal. In a day, when you don’t come across any problems – you can be sure that you are traveling the wrong path.

None can destroy iron, but its own rust can! Likewise, none can destroy a person, but their own mindset can. I don’t believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right.

Read 500 pages like this every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it. In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.

You may not always have a comfortable life, and you may not always be able to solve all the world’s problems, but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have, because history has shown us that courage can be contagious, and hope can take on a life of its own.

Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. The most important investment you can make is in yourself. I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business.

Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don’t support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.