All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals.

If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.

There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published.

The best sales questions have your expertise wrapped into them.

Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn’t a learned behavior. It’s just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder.

I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?

If you can't be smart or funny, be brief.

People who focus on 'getting better' goals (also known as Personal Bests) as opposed to performance goals have a much better chance of success.

Traditional methods of sales prospecting are grossly inefficient.

Every tomorrow has two handles we can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.

Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough to change.

Nice try, mister, but being cute won't save you.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way.

I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.

If we internationalize everything, we end up with rules that stifle freedom and innovation.

Once you're a football player, you're a football player for life. You always think of yourself in terms of that. We all do. It's hard to get rid of when you can't play anymore.

Pay attention to your culture and your hires from the very beginning.

Thank you! Welcome to the Universe of Sanjaya!

My books are friends that never fail me.

I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.