It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.

Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.

A plan without action is not a plan. It's a speech.

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome'. You must be willing to fire.

A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan!

The older I get, the more I see a straight path where I want to go. If you're going to hunt elephants, don't get off the trail for a rabbit.

Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours, and make sure that they are not the same eight hours.

You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.

On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.

Work hard. Come early, stay late. That's the way leadership has to approach it.

If they knew how much you kept inside to keep from hurting them, but hurting yourself instead, maybe they’d love you more.

We’re not completely happy here because we’re not supposed to be! Earth is not our final home

sometimes the most logical thought that come out from our head is far from "logic" in reality.

Honestly, one-hour drama is the hardest format there is. I think it's harder than movies, and it's harder than half-hour comedy.

Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.

We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal.

What I envisioned to see was a group of guys drinking beer.

There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.

Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich!

I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.