I battle to fall asleep at night. My mind races every other night. I have always been like this, for as long as I can reminder.

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!

I believe that within every one of us is a woman of undiscovered beauty, a woman who is charming and talented and light of heart

知之者不如好之者，好之者不如樂之者。”“Knowing it does not compare with loving it

Work is the undoing of nature.

Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history

I'm not a great beauty. That's not me.

Buzzards got to eat, same as the worms.

A bit ridiculous, but true. The moral of this story is to separate men and women when analyzing number of sexual organs.

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

New York is like a vacation - no beach required.