You can't operate a company by fear because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

I'm not a driven businessman but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

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.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Try try try and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

I think that there is nothing not even crime more opposed to poetry to philosophy ay to life itself than this incessant business.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Hell there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact if anything I am the prod.

If there is anything that a man can do well I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

When I was in elementary school I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go 'Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old happy birthday. I hope you're doing something.'

Even when I was a kid I had a good thing with kids. To this day if I go to a birthday party with one of my kids I swear to you I am so much happier hanging out with my kids and their friends than talking to the grown-ups.

If there's one thing I really want for my birthday that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve.

All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheesemaking class a few weeks ago and I told my family and friends to only get me kitchen stuff on my birthday. I'm into every kind of cookbook and anything by Anthony Bourdain. I'd love to own a restaurant if I could find the right chef.

Any time women come together with a collective intention it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt in a kitchen preparing a meal in a club reading the same book or around the table playing cards or planning a birthday party when women come together with a collective intention magic happens.