The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.

I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up.

Be candid with everyone.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

Change before you have to.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.

Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

The pursuit of life is passion to seek the presence of God.

Happiness is self-contained and self-sufficient. Happy men have no time and no use for you. Happy men are free men.

The destiny of man is to be more and more human.

Some people give you that motivation to work harder simply to get the hell away from wherever they are.

The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.

You work with each individual actor as you perceive their needs to be. It's something that you've figured out in the weeks of pre-production.

I love you because you’re the only person I want to make love to without any conditions and—and I love that you need me.

For me, trying to expand the energy to make one movie in Hollywood would be the equivalent in terms of energy to making 10 movies in Japan.

Im constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.