The key to success is not purely who's the smartest, who's the best, but also who can say with conviction, "I deserve it." The entire concept is wrapped up in one phrase: "Why not me?

You know you're doing what you love when Sunday nights feel the same as Friday nights.

There are moments in business and in life when you have to say, "Failure is not an option."

Once you realize that there are no geniuses out there, you can think, "I can do that". One reason I've succeeded is that I have that naïve sense of entitlement.

And here's what management is: motivating people and putting them in places where they can succeed.

The failure-dichotomy principle: failure is good. Failure is not an option. Balance those in your brain.

I've built my success on the idea that a win for me involves a win for everyone around me.

The passion, the competitiveness, the swinging for the fences, it adds up.

The best bosses understand the people working for them. That's the first component: what makes my people tick? What are they in it for?

You can be hard on people as long as you're just as hard on yourself.

When you see someone who has turned his passion into a profit, ask yourself, ‘Why not me?

When you punish a person for dreaming his dreamDon't expect him to thank or forgive you.

Night heralded sleep and shadows, demons and dreams. But I heralded the night.

A minimum put to good use is enough for anything.

Indeed, if the Framers intended unenumerated rights to be protected without a bill of rights, how can we imagine that those rights were meant to be any less secure with a bill of rights.

Better may not be as good as the best, but better is surprisingly hard to obtain. And better is actually harder than worse.

The I is always in the field of the Other.

I've become accustomed to supporting politicians who are more conservative than I am. This is not entirely a surprise.

I ain't got no beef with nobody.

And I really have done everything that I said I did do. The rest is just a story that somebody else made up.

I studied philosophy and ended on sociology. For some reason, all the advanced courses in philosophy were offered 4:30 to 6:30, so I could never go because of football, so I had to switch.