Once you turn pro and you're making the big money and kids are buying your sneakers and your skates and your gloves and so on, you are a member of that role model club.

Too many people spend more time planning how to get the job than on how to become productive and successful in that job.

By the time a player becomes a Grandmaster, almost all of his training time is dedicated to work on this first phase. The opening is the only phase that holds out the potential for true creativity and doing something entirely new.

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

I hope the cooks who are working for me now are getting that kind of experience so they can use what they're learning now as a foundation for a great career.