There may be stranger reasons for being alive. There are books There’s interlibrary loan. There are books you can fall into and pull up over your head.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.

The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

To succeed in this world, you have to change all the time.

Communicate everything you can to your associates. The more they know, the more they care. Once they care, there is no stopping them.

You can't just keep doing what works one time, everything around you is changing. To succeed, stay out in front of change.

Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.

Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune

Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.

Sleeping is like meditation: it's good to rest the body but also to shut the mind down for a bit.

A wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave girls making grain.

By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.

Then HBO was the pie in the sky. HBO is the absolute ultimate.

My brain begins to work stuff out, but then kinda half way through, it starts wandering off and it's like ahh, unicorns.

What is the purpose of life? To elevate all, big or small.

Above average intelligence has always run in my family. Ambition, however, has always walked with a limp.

The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.

Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.

The British public sees with blinding clarity.