If you can't embrace both failure or the possibility of failure, or the tremendous fear of failure, you can't be wildly successful. It's just an axiomatic truth.

You know you're doing what you love when Sunday nights feel the same as Friday nights.

There are moments in business and in life when you have to say, "Failure is not an option."

Once you realize that there are no geniuses out there, you can think, "I can do that". One reason I've succeeded is that I have that naïve sense of entitlement.

And here's what management is: motivating people and putting them in places where they can succeed.

The failure-dichotomy principle: failure is good. Failure is not an option. Balance those in your brain.

I've built my success on the idea that a win for me involves a win for everyone around me.

The passion, the competitiveness, the swinging for the fences, it adds up.

The key to success is not purely who's the smartest, who's the best, but also who can say with conviction, "I deserve it." The entire concept is wrapped up in one phrase: "Why not me?

The best bosses understand the people working for them. That's the first component: what makes my people tick? What are they in it for?

You can be hard on people as long as you're just as hard on yourself.

The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.

When it comes to scary business, I believe that forewarned is forearmed.

No honest work of man or woman "fails" it feeds the sum of all human action.

The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error.

The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]

She can tell you the height of the attacker from the trigonometry of the blood spatter, while I'm fuzzy on what trigonometry is.

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.

The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat.

Dolly Parton, who said to her doctor, Are you sure it's a chest cold? Never got a dinner!