Management philosophy: Pay attention to the vital fiew and ignore the trivial many. I could go insane if I obsessed over every little details of all my companies.

Success is how well you do what you do when nobody else is looking.

Pay attention to the vital few and ignore the trivial many.

Successful people do all the things that unsuccessful people don't want to do.

A success unshared is a failure.

Change, create, inspire. Dreams really do work.

I don't use e-mail or a computer. I would be so inundated that I wouldn't be able to get any work done. Instead, I do everything in person or on the phone.

Stay enthusiastic after getting rejected.

America is one of the biggest businesses in the world, and the people who run it can't balance their budget. We need business people in there and lobbyists out of there.

Good hairstylists never die. Vidal Sassoon and Paul Mitchell will always live on.

When you start with next to nothing, all you've got is a lot of thought, a lot of innovation, figuring new ways to do things without using a lot of money.

though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

I plan to be a part of Haiti's reconstruction and future.

I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing.

I don't know if I have the patience and I don't have a trainers license but I will help out. Whether I want to do that full time, I doubt it.

It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story bits will start to stick to a melody and that is the way I write.

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.

They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.

We are alienated, so alienated that the self must disguise itself as an extraterrestrial in order not to alarm us with the truly bizarre dimensions that it encompasses.