You look like you bin whupped with a ugly stick.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.

Everyone on my team should be extraordinarily proud of what they have done.

The principles that make someone a master in the chief executive role deal with whether or not they can thrive in an environment of ongoing duress, and teach others how to do so.

Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?

I am a huge fashion fan. It's a really cool way to express yourself.

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.... He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.

Alan Rickman told me to do a play, so I did. Because when Alan Rickman tells you do something, you go and do it.

I'm only really alive when I'm writing.