If there's one single thing that I do every single time, it's require references and, ideally, at least one reference from every company they've worked at.

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.

Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.

I left halfway through my third year to start Lipstick On Your Collar, which was the first thing I ever did.

(P)eople’s good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

The more things you do outside of your norm, the more ideas you get exposed to, the more people you get exposed to, and I think that's interesting.

The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves.

I would often be a coward, but for the shame of it.

The Soul is not composed of any materials. It is unity indivisible. Therefore it must be indestructible.

I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect.