The best bosses understand the people working for them. That's the first component: what makes my people tick? What are they in it for?

You know you're doing what you love when Sunday nights feel the same as Friday nights.

There are moments in business and in life when you have to say, "Failure is not an option."

Once you realize that there are no geniuses out there, you can think, "I can do that". One reason I've succeeded is that I have that naïve sense of entitlement.

And here's what management is: motivating people and putting them in places where they can succeed.

The failure-dichotomy principle: failure is good. Failure is not an option. Balance those in your brain.

I've built my success on the idea that a win for me involves a win for everyone around me.

The passion, the competitiveness, the swinging for the fences, it adds up.

The key to success is not purely who's the smartest, who's the best, but also who can say with conviction, "I deserve it." The entire concept is wrapped up in one phrase: "Why not me?

You can be hard on people as long as you're just as hard on yourself.

When you see someone who has turned his passion into a profit, ask yourself, ‘Why not me?

Sometimes the only way to succeed is to fail backwards

A gamble. Everything was a damn gamble. Betting against luck and the Fates, again and again, and again. She kept walking, waiting for the bullet.

If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

A thing resounds when it rings true, Ringing all the bells inside of you, Like a golden sky on a summer eve Your heart is tugging at your sleeve, And you cannot say why... There must be more

You don't want to get rid of your experiences, because they're your experiences - good or bad - and you need them, but it would be great if they weren't on the video shelf!

You know the rule: If you are falling, dive. Do the thing that has to be done.

Sometimes, some foreign reporters who come to Singapore to interview me, and they wonder, why we conduct Meet-the-People’s sessions at the void deck. So much for a first world nation.

Have you lost your way? Don't be sad; be happy, because you will see new places, places that you have never been to! It is magical to lose the way!

The dreams I chased took me on a journey,a journey more rewarding than the goals

[With my photographs] you have a [single, forever fixed] moment and my particular angle of vision. My tyrannical condition, as it were, is that I prescribe your vision.