“I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept...” — Muhammad Ali Quote

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

Once you start to try and calculate why you were cast and why you weren't, you get in trouble.

A single element in transactional mode can never be analysed to calculate either loss or presumptive loss. The losses or gains of all elements in the transaction need to be analysed.

Book proposals are written like business plans. You need to identify your market, see what the competition is in the space, calculate how many books you think you can sell, work on building a platform to sell them and promote them.

It has nothing to do with commercial success. You cannot calculate in your head how to put the mosaic together to make a commercial film: that's out of the question.