Get the culture right, and everything else just falls into place.

A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's harder to turn quickly.

There's a big difference between motivation and inspiration: Inspire through values and motivation takes care of itself.

...the best leaders are servant leaders - they serve those they lead.

Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.

Customer service shouldn't just be A department, it should be the entire company.

The biggest (and hardest) lesson I've learned in life is that the external world is just a reflection of the world within.

A great brand is a story that never stops unfolding.

Your culture is your brand.

Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.

Whatever you're thinking, think bigger.

Approach everything with a careful tongue. - Elder God from The Thousand Years War

...explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge.

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution " the old one.

Humility is the proper estimate of oneself.

It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art.

You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.

I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.

Nic [Cage] is more than just a fantastic actor. He will get your movie made. The first thing that we did is that we went to producers and there were a lot of great producers.

The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.

I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.