When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation...they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.

The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

It is a special privilege and calling to live in two millenniums.

I knew in my heart that I wasn't cool, but I figured I could at least be cool by association.

You gotta keep the funny intact.

When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.

I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.

Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?

I love the pursuit of songwriting, and I've seen what songs can do in people's lives. Some of the stories that come back from songs flying around the globe are so encouraging.

Let us not compare the genius with the clever; ocean with the lake!

I may be an optimist.

Know what you want - and get it