You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.

If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn't even thought of - and then meet it.

Who you spend your life with-much more so than how you choose to spend it-is the most important decision you can make. Do it right. That's the best advice I can give you.

For businesses to be successful, they need to constantly ask the question: how can we provide value to our customers? At the end of the day, that is what matters.

Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.

If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.

Your professional experience can strengthen your resume, increase your earning potential, prove dependability, instill trust, and open new doors of opportunity which would remain closed otherwise.

The thing is...what they don't tell you about forgiveness is this-you don't give it for the other person's sake, but your own.

I'm thankful for some of bad experiences I've had. They helped me with the way I view people and see them for who they really are.

When people don't take time out, they stop being productive.

We need to give importance to skill development because this way we can end unemployment.

Time was invented by the Almighty God in order to give ideas a chance.

What's so great about working with really funny women is that vanity comes second. Whatever makes it real and funny, they're going to go for, and it's just great.

We are used to being sold out by people we elect.

This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published.

I have three boxes on my desk: In, Out, and Too Hard.