For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is: Try to please everybody.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

I think the success of a talk show depends on how true it is to the personality of the person hosting it. The shows I really admire, like ‘Oprah’ and ‘Ellen,’ are distinctively like their hosts, so I think my show will be successful only if we try to stay consistent to my own sense … Read more

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.