Hire slowly and fire fast.

Today, where you come from seems less and less important, as globalization is the new order. I prefer the old world.

As all entrepreneurs will say, "surround yourself with good people". That is the hardest thing : finding good people.

An entrepreneur needs to have values. Values that are wholesome.

There are differences in the businesses themselves, but the fundamentals are the same: give customers a good experience, charge them a reasonable price, listen to them, and treat them with respect.

Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business. There are few winners, and lots and lots of losers.

Entrepreneurs need to listen. They don't need to be good listeners (although it can only help) but they need to know when to listen.

When things go right (and they go right a lot - you just got to keep trying) there is nothing to really laugh about.

Business is full of pain and hardship and with that, laughter and release.

Obsession makes my life bad and my work good.

Don't take yourself too seriously - learn to laugh. Hire slowly and fire fast. And the most important thing is: you never invest in ideas, only in people!

Horror is like the humor, the one without the other can't exist. Horror makes life more interesting like the humor!

It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.

The pain is kind of challenge your mind presents - will you learn how to focus and move past boredom, or like a child will you succumb to the need for immediate pleasure and distraction?

I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.

Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost, he will do good.

What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is making yourself more available, more gentle and open to others.

Earlier today, the jury at the Martha Stewart trial reached a verdict. Martha was found guilty on all charges. In a related story, there's a huge sale at K-Mart.

I never thought of myself as a good singer.

It is our hypocrisy and self-focus that drains us. When we become purpose centered, internally directed other focused and externally open, we discover energy we didn't know we had.

Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth.