How do you build a successful organization or culture? It's the people. The people part, in business and basketball, is huge.

Instant gratification is so overrated. It's about the process. It's the difficulty. It's the grind of all of it that you better enjoy. That's what makes it great.

It comes down to competitiveness. I hate to lose. We want people in our organization that hate to lose - that want to compete every single day, so you continue to strive to win.

If you work with people that are bringing you up constantly - really bright, really passionate people - you can't help but get pulled in that direction.

You stay elite by constantly moving forward.

If you like who you work with, who you interact with every day, you're going to accomplish better things.

If you can build a team full of high-quality people, and you bring aboard someone who may lack qualities, they're probably likely to go in the right direction.

Money can make life comfortable, solve some problems and bring temporary satisfaction, but true happiness and joy is not guaranteed by money.

Her heart longed for some ark into which it could fly and be at rest. Rough or smooth she did not care, so long as it was warm.

The woman, who is not the wife, has no right to receive the seed of the man, because it is the man and not the woman, who has to bear the responsibility for his seed.

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.

If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife.

In general I usually don't really go by or live my life by a clock and outside of touring I don't really ask anyone else to. It's not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.

Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

Seeing David Mackenzie's work in "Starred Up," I thought that was a wonderful film.