All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

You don't have to reinvent the wheel, just attach it to a new wagon.

Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

In our business, the windows of opportunity open and close with dazzling rapidity...I constantly have to remind people to seize the moment.

Round numbers beg to be negotiated, usually by counteroffer round numbers. Odd numbers sound harder, firmer, less negotiable.

People don't plan to fail. They fail to plan.

If you aren't afraid to fail, then you probably don't care enough about success.

If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organisation-and, trust me, they are-managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who come up with those ideas.

If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles.

Concentrate on each task, whether trivial or crucial, as if it's the only thing that matters.

The best people know that there are two phases in every crisis: the one where you manage it and the other where you learn from it. To succeed you have to do both

I was charmed by a performance given by Crowded House at Toronto's Massey Hall where the bass player broke a string.

I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food.

How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.

I always make the joke that I go home, to one of my homes, to go and do laundry so I can go on the road again.

Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.

Think positive, real volleyball happens too fast to think any other way.

Of all the things you must earn in life, God's unending affection is not one of them. You have it.

The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies. -Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.