People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.

Love your family, work super hard, live your passion.

What's the ROI of your Mom?

A penguin cannot become a giraffe, so just be the best penguin you can be.

We only get to play this game one time, one life.

I attract a crowd, not because I'm an extrovert or I'm over the top or I'm oozing with charisma. It's because I care.

If you know exactly what you want to be, you need to spend as much time as possible with people who are actually that already.

The only differentiator in the game is your passion and your hustle.

Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.

Look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself, what do I want to do everyday for the rest of my life. Do that!

You can't read about push ups. You gotta do them.

See the moon? It hates us.

[A]s Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions.

Also the fact that he's a guy. A girl screws around like Lotto and she's like diseased. Untouchable. But a guy can stick it to a million places and everyone just thinks he's doing what boys do.

All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely.

The performance on the stage has its reasons in the performance induced in thousands of separate minds and this second performance is no less prodigious than the first.

Law of Airlines: The shorter the time between flights, the greater the distance between gates.

I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird

I always joke that I'm a British actress trying to break into Scandinavian TV.

Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill - but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.

It is part of a sailor's life to die well.