The best career advice to give to the young is, 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.'

I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.

The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.

You must spend money to make money.

After I graduated from Brandeis, I took all the money I had in the world, which was $5,000, and I made a short film. I made every mistake you could possibly make. It was a total disaster as a piece of work, and yet, you know, it was ambitious in some way.

Despite the evidence that we already have too many students in higher education, the hot new idea among the political class is to double down by pushing for 'free college tuition.' The problem with the 'free college' idea is, however, not merely financial. It also reinforces the myth that college is appropriate or even possible for all students.