We wanted to be led by our mission and to embed our values throughout the world.

Everyone in the world should have a trench coat, and there should be a trench coat for everyone in the world. It does not matter your age; it doesn't matter your gender.

I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.

Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.

When you have trust and you get that trust in place throughout the company, people are empowered — people are free.

I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience, leadership and vision.

If you aren't building a social enterprise, I don't know what your business model will be in 5 years

The thing is, I don't want to be sold to when I walk into a store. I want to be welcomed.

I don't want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife.

I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mom and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently.

Our greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence.

Why was it that thoughts and plans always made more sense when confined to one's mind than when they exited one's mouth?

story telling is not a career, it's a calling. I've been writing true and compelling news my entire professional life. My novels are packs of lies

A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.

You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I've never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.

If we don't change the way Washington operates we're going to bankrupt our children and grandchildren.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth.

I grew up listening to Commission, Kirk Franklin and Hezekiah Walker. If I was found listening to any rap, my pops would throw them out, or crush the CDs and tapes - literally.

The rich buy assets. The poor only have expenses. The middle class buys liabilities they think are assets. The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.

When you win a Grammy, it links a certain prestige and importance to you, you know? People want to talk to you.