It comes down to competitiveness. I hate to lose. We want people in our organization that hate to lose - that want to compete every single day, so you continue to strive to win.

Instant gratification is so overrated. It's about the process. It's the difficulty. It's the grind of all of it that you better enjoy. That's what makes it great.

How do you build a successful organization or culture? It's the people. The people part, in business and basketball, is huge.

If you work with people that are bringing you up constantly - really bright, really passionate people - you can't help but get pulled in that direction.

You stay elite by constantly moving forward.

If you like who you work with, who you interact with every day, you're going to accomplish better things.

If you can build a team full of high-quality people, and you bring aboard someone who may lack qualities, they're probably likely to go in the right direction.

Jaypaw narrowed his eyes. "I'm not as blind as you think.

O thrush your song is passing sweet But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

Happiness is so rarely a part of my vocabulary, because for me it's so fleeting

I want people to love me, but it's not going to hurt me if they don't.

I came up almost completely through the subsidised theatre. I have never been absolutely at the market interface, where I've got to sell my wares or die - I've always been protected from that.

Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child.

I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.

Forget things and have a quiet moment.

When I was younger I was obsessed with 'Star 80,' and it's just a great movie - I think I saw it three times in the theater.