Someone once said that death is God's way of telling you to slow down. I do enjoy what I do, and the secret of my success is the willingness to grind work out.

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.

Harold Bloom weeps for me.

It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.

[Howard Hughes ] approached filmmaking like he approached all of his inventiveness - it gave him an opportunity to make a name for himself in the world.

I think one of the problems with the capitalist mainstream is this: no matter what you create to respond or resist it they will buy it.

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

A lady with a clipboard stopped me in the street the other day. She said, 'Can you spare a few minutes for cancer research?' I said, 'All right, but we won't get much done.'

Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense, the stuff of which reality is made. It is through our dreams that we maintain the possibility of a better, more meaningful life.

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.

When everyone thinks alike, no one is doing very much thinking.