I love the way business works, when there's a crisis or a scandal, there is blood on the floor. Somebody pays, people are held accountable, that's just not politics.

Just keep asking questions. Does this job allow me to be myself? Does it make me smarter? Does it open doors? Does it represent a compromise I accept? Does it touch my inner being?

Ask yourself: Does the job touch my heart and feed my soul? You will never be what you were meant to be if you aren't having fun.

We call it your area of destiny. We urge people to build their careers at that intersection of what they're uniquely good at ... and what you love to do.

It used to be you rose up through the ranks, and by the time you got a job as a boss, you had done the work of everybody beneath you.

Business is business and politics is politics and never between shall meet.

It's a choice that you make and there's consequences. It's something you have to own.

When I first met Jack, I was terrified of him. I wasn't expecting a fun, laughing, enjoyable, exciting guy. I walked into his office like most people, with my knees knocking together. I was scared.

You should ask for a performance evaluation. Ask your boss, where do I stand? I need to know what I can do better and what I'm doing well.

Most people don't know where they stand. One day their boss gives them an eye roll, and it can set back their whole day. It causes enormous stress.

You've got to dig in [and learn about things you don't know] if you want to stay in the conversation.

I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.

Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.

Any society begins by realizing that together, by helping each other, you can survive better than if you fight each other and compete with each other.

I have never lost an election yet. I am a winner. Let's just say that.

I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.

I never try to set goals that I know are too tough to achieve or out of my reach.

You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.

If you lost the love of your life, that's a nightmare.

I'm very eclectic in terms of what I like, what I read, what I watch, my own consumer behavior.

Music is one of the most essential things in life. It is what teaches us.