And that's the secret. Timing, hard work and smart partners. Using that formula, I've either founded or funded over 80 companies, and none have gone bankrupt. Most have done very well.

The single most important route of success is persistence - never, ever give up!

I am truly an angel investor and I'am not a passive investor.As a passive investor, I am awful because I can not put funding into a company and leave it to other people.

I don't think I'm stubborn. I just focus on the task at hand and do what it takes. Persistence is the single most important thing for success.

Make a mark; don't be part of the living dead.

It will be the kiss by which all others in your life will be judged... and found wanting.

Gene Kelly was a great dancer and I was lucky to be in 'Singin' in the Rain.' He was my teacher when I was 17 years old, when he was 37 years old. He taught me everything.

The principle of investing is that by use you possess and gain, by disuse you decline and lose.

Life is a series of hard and easy runs.

If you can get the crew to laugh on a show, you know that you're doing something.

I dress a little strange. I dress a little theatrically.

I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete.

I think that women are more sensitive to emotional infidelity than men. I think men are more scared of physical infidelity.

We bury our seeds and wait, Winter blocks the road, Flowers are taken prisoner underground, But then green justice tenders a spear

It's superb, definitely. Something that is new to me, that is shocking. I got the news last night about 3 in the morning, and I don't think I even went back to bed.