Business is many things, the least of which is the balance sheet. It is a fluid, ever changing, living thing, sometimes building to great peaks, sometimes falling to crumbled lumps.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - - mental, financial you name it.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Dare to love yourselfas if you were a rainbowwith gold at both ends.

I've gone through a really hard divorce, and anyone who has gone through a divorce will speak about how hard the journey is from start to finish. It's a life-uprooting time.

I've spent a lot of time off planet.

I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty.

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

There was definitely a lack of any sort of villain in the Clinton era, which is why when Columbine happened, it was easy to pick on me. My face was around and it made good TV.

The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.

The real honesty is a responsibility to the present moment. It needs tremendous awareness. You have to be honest to the present moment, not to the past, not to the future.

every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.