The one thing in life you can control is your effort. Are there any shortcuts in the beauty business? No. That was the first lesson I learned. You can't just rocket to the top.

I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy.

Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people.

It's not in the dreaming, it's in the doing.

If given a choice between investing in someone who has read REWORK or has an MBA, I’m investing in REWORK every time. A must read for every entrepreneur.

Always wake up with a smile knowing that today you are going to have fun accomplishing what others are too afraid to do.

The only thing in your control is effort. That's all, and that's everything.

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.

I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet - I want to know who the morons are.

It takes time, it's a grind. There are no shortcuts. You've got to grind and grind.

As long as she had books and money, nothing could be a catastrophe.

When I live each day so well, I will have no regrets when tomorrow never comes.

I never give up hope.

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.

real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.

The best Thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in Look as much like home as we can.

You see I'm such a fool that I'm never afraid of appearing foolish.

Being powerful is so much more interesting than being beautiful.

I love actors, number one. There's probably nobody that you could name that I don't like, depending on what it is they're in.

One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.