I don't buy art. I'd rather buy a beautiful location or a beautiful site than buy art. A beautiful home is like owning a beautiful painting, except you can live in it.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

I'm always looking over my shoulder, needing to stay ahead of the game.

What matters is hard work, and emotional intelligence.

People put 'study abroad' on their resume. I actually like when they don't study abroad because that means they aren't entitled.

Everything has a trend to it; I don't care if it's appliances or engines. I always ask: What has a company done in the past five years that somebody's noticed?

Most obstacles are inspiration.

I'm an agent of change all day long, and I want to meet other people like that.

Good taste shouldn't have to cost anything extra.

I spot detail quickly.

A merchant is someone who figures out how to select, how to smell, how to identify, how to feel, how to time, how to buy, how to sell, and how to hopefully have two plus two equal six.

Few humans see fairies or hear their music, but many find fairy rings of dark grass, scattered with toadstools, left by their dancing feet.

Nothing must be left to chance in a magical performance. Everything conducive to enhancing the mystery of the illusions must be arranged with painstaking care and thought.

She believed that owning a lots of things made you a better person. She didn't know - possibly didn't want to know - that happiness comes from the inside.

If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don't have any faith.

An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.

It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.

If you're going to change the food system, there is a lot that you, the consumer, can do on your own; but in the end, it will be very important to make changes at the national level.

Control your own mind, and you may never be controlled by the mind of another.

Dream and don't ask too many questions, or fear will overcome your feelings.

I’ve always been an entrepreneur, but it’s never been about the money. I like a challenge, the harder the better.