I will accept your influence, guidance and direction if (and only if) I believe that you and I share similar goals.

Believe passionately in what you do, and never knowingly compromise your standards and values. Act like a true professional, aiming for true excellence, and the money will follow.

Professional is not a label you give yourself - it's a description you hope others will apply to you.

What you do with your billable time determines your current income, but what you do with your non-billable time determines your future.

Focus on being the best you can at what you want to do.

Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't trust your motives, nothing else will matter -because my primary concern is your integrity.

If your clients aren't actively telling their friends about you, maybe your work isn't as great as you think it is.

Success comes from doing what you enjoy. If you don't enjoy it, how can it be called success?

Left untended, knowledge and skill, like all assets, depreciate in value surprisingly quickly.

More than any other factor, it is the people we have to deal with that determine the quality of our work lives.

I will not accept your guidance and critique unless you are supportive and nurturing. On the other hand, you need to be continually demanding.

You're alive, Haven, but when are you going to start living?

Chaos is not the lack of order, it is merely the absence of order, that the observer is used to.

'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.

If your country needs you, you should be right there, that is the way I felt when I was young, and that's the way I feel today.

Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key.

I think right now, the focus has got to be on how we hold [Donald] Trump accountable.

Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself.

Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.

You do your own thing and you see if you survive.

It makes me laugh when I hear a guy talking about being in touch with his feminine side. But I gravitate towards women, I identify with them. And I do cry very easily, more and more as I get older.