The country's top chefs, designers, media personalities and businesses are part of this dynamic city. We know that Chicagoans are used to the highest standards.

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.

When did most of us stop being poets?

When people are treated like a product, they become obsessed with materialism.

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.

To become conscious of what is horrifying and to laugh at it is to become master of that which is horrifying

It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

I dream of a quiet man / who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows / where the rarest wildflowers / are blooming, and who goes, / and finds that he is smiling / not by his own will.

To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.