There are five top superstars in golf, 20 great stars, and 30 good ones. The rest should go and get jobs.

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

You don't have to reinvent the wheel, just attach it to a new wagon.

Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

In our business, the windows of opportunity open and close with dazzling rapidity...I constantly have to remind people to seize the moment.

Round numbers beg to be negotiated, usually by counteroffer round numbers. Odd numbers sound harder, firmer, less negotiable.

People don't plan to fail. They fail to plan.

If you aren't afraid to fail, then you probably don't care enough about success.

If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organisation-and, trust me, they are-managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who come up with those ideas.

If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles.

Concentrate on each task, whether trivial or crucial, as if it's the only thing that matters.

Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

What is God's part and what is man's part? God's part is grace. Man's part is faith.

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was possible for me to execute myself.

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.

Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil.

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.

Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?

The rules are very important in a horror movie.

We will form an army of poor, where every poor will be a soldier and we will win the war against poverty on behalf of their strength.

You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward.