There is only one standard - a global standard. Be consistent, operate at 100% every single time you're given an opportunity.

There's so much more to tell about Africa than the usual stories about war, famine and disease.

Hire the best talent to tell the story, or the view is great from my hotel.

In America, you complain about job losses because of China, but here, we carry all of the environmental costs.

The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.

The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print.

I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.

Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.

The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book

One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.

This kind of collective society - giving to each according to his need - existed in Africa not only before Karl Marx, but also before Europe.

The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write.

Never take more out of life, than you intend to give back.