A strong player, which has the sufficient critical mass, can withhold pressure better and create a more stable environment that benefits shareholders as well as employees.

At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.

Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.

Its not always you get to hit the iron when it is hot. I believe in hitting it so hard, that it gets hot.

Hard work certainly goes a long way. These days a lot of people work hard, so you have to make sure you work even harder and really dedicate yourself to what you are doing and setting out to achieve.

Everyone experiences tough times, it is a measure of your determination and dedication how you deal with them and how you can come through them.

This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.

The danger, though - and there have been signs of this recently - is that Europe begins to demonstrate a return to more nationalist sentiment. To my mind, that would be a great mistake.

When people can see which direction the leaders are going in it becomes easier to motivate them.

I am very confident that we will be able to convince all the stakeholders - the shareholders, the governments and the employees, that this is in their best interests.

It is a high for me. It is my biggest and most satisfying deal.

The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves.

Many people seek popularity and want everyone to know their name. It’s not important for everyone to know your name, it’s important that some of the people you know don’t forget your name.

Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.

When you get deep ecologists who are philosophers, and they drive cars and take newspapers and don't grow their own vegetables, in fact they're not deep ecologists - they're my enemies.

I never think that anything I do is courageous.

Limited by the world, which I oppose, jagged by it, I shall be all the more handsome and sparkling as the angles which wound me and give me shape are more acute and the jagging more cruel.

Plans can be like a winged horse, but their execution plods along pulling carts.

Sending a book out into the world is a lot like sending your child to the first day of kindergarten. You hope the other kids play nice and that she makes friends.

I think I ended up on 'People”s '50 Most Beautiful People' list just because of eyeliner, which is kind of a bummer. But if you do find the right color, it will make your eyes pop.

The human mind is a wonderful thing, it starts working from before you're born and doesn't stop till you sit down to write a song.