Whether or not your values are operational is crucially determined by whether or not there are consequences for noncompliance.

Believe passionately in what you do, and never knowingly compromise your standards and values. Act like a true professional, aiming for true excellence, and the money will follow.

Professional is not a label you give yourself - it's a description you hope others will apply to you.

What you do with your billable time determines your current income, but what you do with your non-billable time determines your future.

Focus on being the best you can at what you want to do.

I will accept your influence, guidance and direction if (and only if) I believe that you and I share similar goals.

Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't trust your motives, nothing else will matter -because my primary concern is your integrity.

If your clients aren't actively telling their friends about you, maybe your work isn't as great as you think it is.

Success comes from doing what you enjoy. If you don't enjoy it, how can it be called success?

Left untended, knowledge and skill, like all assets, depreciate in value surprisingly quickly.

More than any other factor, it is the people we have to deal with that determine the quality of our work lives.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal.

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

Magic has been something I've been really good at since I was really young. The ability has always come easy to me, I'm not sure why.

The Bible says that it is hard for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven. It doesn't say that it is impossible!

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

No one is worth wasting a gorgeous weekend over.

The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.

Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern.