The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.

Only you can control your future.

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Listen if you want to be heard

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Nothing will work unless you do.

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

Please all, and you will please none.

The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

Well done is better than well said.