People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

What's measured improves

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

And thus we all are nighingThe truth we fear to know:Death will end our cryingFor friends that come and go.

Have not we affections and desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?

If you truly love something, you should set it free. If it comes back.. Lock them in cage and throw the key. If it doesn’t then.. Damn them to Hell.

Shakespeare is a good raft whereon to float securely down the stream of time; fasten yourself to that and your immortality is safe.

Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely.

I like to show as much of a woman as I can. I like to fill things out.

I don't have many superstitions, just dumb things I don't talk about. I will not sign an autograph with a green pen.

Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.

If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you don't, the result will look like something that isn't there.

To be a classic, a novel should be original.