I think my mom threatened to put me up for adoption a few times.

Work is changing for men as much as it is for women.

Success isn’t something that happens to you; you happen to it.

I'm not a clone, and I'm not a minion.

It's very hard to be great at what you do if you aren't deeply passionate.

I've never had a sense of entitlement. I saw how hard my father worked for his money, and it was always made very clear to me that things wouldn't just be given to me.

Everything about mediocrity kills me.

I set very bold goals. It's how I've always been. I'm definitely somebody who swings for the fences, and I expect very high performance.

People underestimate me, and that's fine. I prefer to go into negotiations being underestimated.

It's important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial instincts and changing to accommodate the times.

I've never lived in a building without my name on it.

A smile is much lighter to carry than a frown!

My heart is my best asset, my heart is my biggest liability.

It is the power of questions that embolden us and keep us as expectant children, all the while developing the power of human consciousness.

If you don't change course - if you don't have something waiting for you, even if it's just to occupy you until you turn eighteen, you're not going to make it. You need to make a plan for next year.

Any idea that is held in the mind, that is emphasized, that is either feared or revered, will begin at once to cloth itself in the most convenient and appropriate form available.

If you take donations from Wall Street, you can't be independent.

No matter what your work today, if it is worth while at all - time to plan it out, time to do it well, and time to finish it, is your day's greatest gift and your greatest job.

My childhood was absolutely the worst place I've ever been," "It was terrible.

Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.