I used to think business was 50 percent having the right people. Now I think it's 80 percent.

I heavily overinvest in recruiting. I have an understanding with certain search firms that if you find someone great, don't wait until there's a job opening - send him to me.

The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human resources. That's 20 percent of my week.

I walked out. I left. Andy Jankowski had taught me how.

When a man sleeps he is shut up within the narrow activities of his physical life. He lives, but he knows not the varied relations of his life to his surroundings, - therefore he knows not himself.

Our covetousness for miracles and wonders leads into self-deception

We're all connected now, I think as I send it off into cyberspace. Everyone and everything.

Youth yearns to youth, full blood loves full blood only.

As a child, I loved being onstage. I loved singing, I loved the lights, I loved the adrenaline. I even loved learning lines. I was completely obsessive.

The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another.

Self-parody is the first portent of age.

Genuinely good people are like that. The sun shines out of them. They warm you right through.

It is no longer acceptable to ignore the suffering, and designers must take responsibility for the way that their fur is produced.