The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results.

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

What's measured improves

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

She measured time in pages. Half an hour, to her, meant ten pages read, or fourteen, depending on the size of the type, and when you think of time in this way there isn’t time for anything else.

Life that did not yearn toward life was in fair way toward ceasing.

The story of a marriage was an excellent way to fulfill the goal of discussing class without discussing class, and to tell an audience that they were upwardly mobile.

When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called 'Dead End.' The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.

What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.

Unless I work with Shah Rukh my career cannot be complete. I can't hang my boots till that happens.

I want to change a lot.

When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.

The theater is reaching as many different demographics as it can now.