"Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest."

"Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices."

"We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist."

"A research group found that 56 percent of major companies surveyed in the late '80s agreed that 'employees who are loyal to the company and further its business goals deserve an assurance of continued employment.' A decade later, only 6 percent agreed. It was in the '90s that companies started weeding people out as a form of cost reduction."

"Rise early, act with intent, and let your accomplishments speak with silent authority. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"A dream nurtured by daily toil will inevitably outshine a wish born of idle hope. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future."

"Vision without execution is fantasy; execution without vision is chaos. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."