We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up.

Be candid with everyone.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

Change before you have to.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.

Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

Be yourself, don't try to be someone else. And the right people will love you for who you are.

...if you're an artist, you've submitted to authority...

Ever see moors murderer Ian Brady, study his photos, study Black, study Cannon, study Sutcliffe - study them all! Who says evil is not recognisable?

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

The surgeon general warned today that saliva causes stomach cancer. But apparently only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time.

Once you love something, you can never stop loving it. Even after a divorce, the heart will not stop loving.

We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.

I was punished for communicating.

Conor held tightly onto his mother. And by doing so, he could finally let her go.

My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978.