I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.

When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.

The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.

It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun.

That's the name of the game ... pleasing the customer. If we ever lose sight of that fact, we've lost the ball game.

The key to success is being in the right place at the right time, recognizing that you are there, and taking action!

To be successful, you must be daring, be first and be different.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

My mother always cultivated my imagination from the time I was very little.

As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

Everything I do is music-related.

Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.

Knowing when to say something and when not to say something is important.

A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because you have to, because it’s your calling.

There's so much excitement around the Phish tours, and if it stopped feeling that way, it would ruin everything we've done for seventeen years.