Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

It's fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast, or a bridge player.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count, like customer satisfaction and performance ... you thrive on that.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world ... if you do so, you are insulting yourself.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next 10. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without talking about the other.

If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions, they will be moved to act.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.

Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.

A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is, and lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you will go out of business.

Business people need to shake off the notion that information is hard to get.

Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now.

A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad, is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.

Reward worthy failure - experimentation.

Some golfers, we are told, enjoy the landscape; but properly, the landscape shrivels and compresses into the grim, surrealistically vivid patch of grass directly under the golfer's eyes as he morosely walks toward where he thinks his ball might be.

It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.

My goal is to reach out to communicate every day, whether I'm in Washington or in the congressional district. In Washington, the best opportunity to do that is on the House floor. It's both a responsibility and an opportunity. I enjoy, every day, taking to the House floor to address an issue or event that is significant for constituents.

A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it's obviously something I'm fortunate that is both my work and my hobby. It's what I would naturally be doing anyway.

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.

I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.

Transformations don't scare me: it thrills me to become the polar opposite.

Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction.

I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.

I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Lauren Hill, I always have her solo CD nearby. I have Coldplay, Radiohead, just a mix.

When someone gets passed that mic, and they know deep down inside that they wanna say something or sing something or produce something, but they don't do that, it's like killing your musical life.

Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes.

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.

We've become a country that is often risk averse. That's not the way to succeed.

Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?

The first campaign that I recall was with Kate Moss and Marky Mark. Probably the most iconic jeans ad ever.

Love will come to you when it’s ready, not necessarily when you are.

The hardest thing I've done Is acting like I hate you, When really I love you more Than you will ever know.

Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.

I'm always surprised when some director says, 'When I saw this film, that changed my life.' I don't have that.