Bad times are indelible. They stay with you forever.

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.

Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth

And that's that as you get older, you lose things, things you don't necessarily want to lose.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

We had one idiot put a bomb in a shoe, and now everybody's got to take their shoes off? Where's the bra bomber at? I say, if we've gotta wait in line, let's make it fun for everybody.

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life.

The unexamined leader is not worth following.

There are three sides to every story. Mine, yours and the truth.

If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.

I've always said that racing in New York is performing on the big stage.