The first rule of luck in business is that you should persevere in doing the right thing. Opportunities will come your way if you do.

But you do have disadvantages, ... Some of the important family decisions made are often not good business decisions. These are decisions that non-family businesses would have no reason to make.

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

Agents who have left the Secret Service to join other federal law enforcement agencies report that training in firearms and counterterrorism tactics in those agencies in many cases far exceeds the quality of what the Secret Service offered.

You certainly have a higher quality of life when you are not on the Forbes list. It just means that your security changes, and you're known for the wrong things.

I was the night foreman of a galvanizing factory, which is hot and smelly and dirty and miserable.