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

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.

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.

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.

In quarreling the truth is always lost.

I whisper and you close your eyes. I speak and you turn away. If I scream, will you finally hear me beg you to hold me close to you, promise you'll never let go?

Ideal date is doing something new, either hiking a new place I've not been, or learning something weird and new like pottery.... and then a meal.

As long as you're open-minded you can learn stuff from anyone.

Our real interest starts with our neighbors... the future is about regional economies.

I do find stories - or literary fiction - an apt form for analyzing the world. And especially for trying to imagine the other. An agenda, again, that seems more important now than ever.

All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.

I used to be a lot more afraid of climate change. Now I spend my time working, planning, trying to move forward.

I look at her wish we could go inside and make love on the couch. Dive inside each other. Take each other. Make each other. Nothing happens, though.

It's important to lighten up a bit!