What matters is hard work, and emotional intelligence.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

I don't buy art. I'd rather buy a beautiful location or a beautiful site than buy art. A beautiful home is like owning a beautiful painting, except you can live in it.

I'm always looking over my shoulder, needing to stay ahead of the game.

People put 'study abroad' on their resume. I actually like when they don't study abroad because that means they aren't entitled.

Everything has a trend to it; I don't care if it's appliances or engines. I always ask: What has a company done in the past five years that somebody's noticed?

Most obstacles are inspiration.

I'm an agent of change all day long, and I want to meet other people like that.

Good taste shouldn't have to cost anything extra.

I spot detail quickly.

A merchant is someone who figures out how to select, how to smell, how to identify, how to feel, how to time, how to buy, how to sell, and how to hopefully have two plus two equal six.

I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.

A lot of period dramas can appear quite arch to most people, stuffy.

Positive thinkers get positive results because they are not afraid of problems.

The U.S. has already suffered a devastating attack on September 11, 2001, and may again become a target.

We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.

What Sri Chinmoy does is God-given! He has a tremendous, a fantastic creative urge.

One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth.

Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same.

I know I'm not a showy politician... I don't go drinking in parliament's bars. I don't wear my heart on my sleeve, I just get on with the job in front of me and you can judge me by my record.

Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.