If you want to build a high performance organization, you've got to play chess, not checkers.

Guess that's thirty-one pieces of silver you've got now, huh? Sleep well, Judas.

I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.

At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in bursts like this every couple of years and only with the best quality artists.

Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.

Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence.

If you feel the need to make everyone happy, you should be a wedding planner not a leader.

Organizations who win, think deeply, choose wisely, and act decisively.

The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.

All my kids love superheroes, but my middle daughter in particular is obsessed with Wonder Woman and Batgirl.

I am as resilient as the steel that was once made here, and I am a fighter, in every sense of the word. We all are.

When a man's busy leisure strikes him as a wonderful pleasure and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.

I wouldn't call myself a standup in the presence of Jerry Seinfeld or Chris Rock, but I do my share of it and it has been and remains part of my activity and I like it.

I don't exercise. My philosophy is: No pain, no pain.

Sometimes a story grabs hold of you and won't let go.

There's no sauce in the world like hunger.

Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.

Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.

Careful, intelligent listening is a crucial step on the road to organizational success.

When things go right and you test properly and you find equipment that's better than what you were playing, then you can do some pretty neat things on the golf course.