Quotes

I say to 'em, 'Learn it while you're in school, because I had to learn it after I got out of school anyway, and I had to do it while I was washing dishes at night.'

"Yes, there are successful people who dropped out, but they had to go to the library on their own time. Learning never ends, so when you have the opportunity and your 'job' is nothing but learning, take advantage of it because if you quit that 'job,' you'll have to get another job and to be successful you're gonna have to keep learning anyway.

It just makes me cringe when I see myself doing stand-up with just a year's worth of chops (1979). You see me (in 1999) doing stand-up to an empty room, and (even) with no audience, my timing is better.

That's the difference between successful people and people who are not successful. Successful people take the one extra step consistently that unsuccessful people never even think of.