Original visions are often wrong. Companies have to morph as they learn what customers don't want.

Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.

Enchantment is the purest form of sales

If you want to make a good first impression, smile at people. What does it cost to smile? Nothing. What does it cost not to smile? Everything, if not smiling prevents you from enchanting people.

The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place.

Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.

Entrepreneur is not a job title. It is a state of mind of people who want to alter the future.

Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting.

Greatness is won, not awarded.

In giving presentations, use the 10/20/30 rule....use only 10 slides, take 20 minutes maximum, and use at least 30-point fonts.

Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant.

3 qualities of a good investor

I chose to be a writer no more than I chose to be female.

I tweet early in the morning when I wake up or late at night just to let you know that I have a show or what's on my mind, and that's it. I hate Snapchat and all of that. It's making kids so stupid.

After 15 years of work I have achieved, as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower, the unity of the German nation, and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles.

If there weren't so many professors, medicine would be much easier.

Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.

I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.

Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing

Botox, I think, is poison, I would never put it into my face, and I'm needle-phobic. I spend a lot of time keeping my face out of the sun and taking care of my skin and wearing make-up.

If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.