You've got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it." It's called perseverance.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.

The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.

My mom is a wonderful woman. She's always been an inspiration to me, but having kids helped me make even more sense of my relationship with her.

I don't feel like I have to be the nice girl.

That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty

It's always better to go personal and painful than to go big.

I don't really watch many heist movies. Actually, I have quite eclectic tastes but I tend to watch just foreign films.

At the moment I was mad enough to chew up nails and spit out paper clips.

The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.

Stupidity is the only natural capital offense.

It's better to build than to buy if you can find the right people.