For businesses to be successful, they need to constantly ask the question: how can we provide value to our customers? At the end of the day, that is what matters.

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.

If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn't even thought of - and then meet it.

Who you spend your life with-much more so than how you choose to spend it-is the most important decision you can make. Do it right. That's the best advice I can give you.

Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.

If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.

The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels.

If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.

All play and no work makes me a happy girl

This is a business that I have always had the last laugh in.It has nothing to do with acting, it has to do with good karma.

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

In school, I was an underachiever.

What we teach our children is that earth is your mother that provides; she's a giver. So, please first ask forgiveness from the mother earth before you step on to it and cause it pain.

I wanted to be a ballerina. I studied ballet for 19 years.

I resent my barber when he charges the full cost after he cuts my hair, but he says he's charging me for finding it.

The scary truth is 96 percent of mutual funds fail to match the market, and the 4 percent that do, they're always changing.

What am I afraid of? The IRS. Thats it. I dont want those people knockin on my door, man.