The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn't even thought of - and then meet it.

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.

If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

Who you spend your life with-much more so than how you choose to spend it-is the most important decision you can make. Do it right. That's the best advice I can give you.

For businesses to be successful, they need to constantly ask the question: how can we provide value to our customers? At the end of the day, that is what matters.

Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.

If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.

The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels.

A pat on the back can often motivate more than currency notes!

Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang it proudly.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

I am unwilling to be wholly good—and please don't regard me as wholly evil!

Did you take Joyce's engine?' 'My instructions were to disable the car, but one of the men bet Hal a burger he couldn't get the engine out. So Hal removed the engine.

To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.

If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.

The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me.

It's very relaxing for me to sing. It's a good break from the hard training and the fighting.

I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.