I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.

Love your family, work super hard, live your passion.

What's the ROI of your Mom?

A penguin cannot become a giraffe, so just be the best penguin you can be.

We only get to play this game one time, one life.

I attract a crowd, not because I'm an extrovert or I'm over the top or I'm oozing with charisma. It's because I care.

If you know exactly what you want to be, you need to spend as much time as possible with people who are actually that already.

The only differentiator in the game is your passion and your hustle.

Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.

Look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself, what do I want to do everyday for the rest of my life. Do that!

You can't read about push ups. You gotta do them.

It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy to make a damaged character repugnant.

Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.

Each time a barrier falls for one person, the doors of opportunity open wider for every other American.

I get way more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on stage in front of 20,000 people.

Japan has introduced fiscal stimulus five times in the past seven or eight years and each time it's been a failure and that's not a surprise. Fiscal stimulus is not stimulating in and of itself.

I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in.

Intelligence collection has been given an additional bureaucracy to correct the problems created by too much bureaucracy in intelligence collection.

My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply a flash somewhere in the middle.

I write against violence. I write against fascism. I write against one person dominating another.

Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.