The way of the pioneer is always rough.

Our company is built on people - those who work for us, and those we do business with.

I can walk through the front door of any factory and out the back and tell you if it's making money or not. I can just tell by the way it's being run and by the spirit of the workers.

Thought, not money, is the real business capital.

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.

Success is the sum of details.

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.

The way of the pioneer is always rough.

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.

Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no ones definition of your life but define yourself.

Venezuela's government must work toward achieving a true culture of democracy for our region. There's no room for persecution based on ideological reasons or for thinking differently.

People think being Elvira is a lot of fun - and it is - but I was doing a lot more bizarre stuff before then, just being a dancer and a showgirl and traveling around Italy in a band and working for Playboy Club, and later being a model and meeting a million and one people and being kind of a groupie... It's all been really interesting.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.

Of pain you could wish only one thing that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.

I was not a Democrat; I was an independent. Here's the thing: You can't win that way. But I didn't know that.

The middle-class ladder has rungs that no longer exist for many trying to climb higher. Instead, for too many, in too many places, their chore is simply trying to hang on.

It's always a tricky thing, trying to make aid sustainable.

I say let's respond as best we can to the victims and their families.

I still listen to a lot of the classics from Bob Dylan and John Martin, but I love electronic music as well. I'm a big fan of an Australian DJ and producer called Flume, who I think is incredible. He should be more successful in the U.K.!

Human beings have enormous resilience.

The vital accessories to my work are my reference books, such as the complete Shakespeare and a prayer book, and a large refuse bin.

My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.

Most corporations have human-resources processes that involve discussions with your manager, performance evaluations, calibrations for performance and potential succession planning.

Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something and give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing.

You can't run from your roots.

I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers.

Our policy is very clear: whatever policy will suit the people, whatever policy will suit the circumstances, whatever policy will suit my state.

Find the story you want to tell. If you don't want to write it, find somebody to write it.

I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.

Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours.

To succeed, we must first believe that we can.

Usually, there is no equivalent of air traffic control at sea. Some busy areas operate 'traffic separation schemes,' but mostly, ships are treated like cars on roads where there are rules and codes of behavior, and successful, accident-free outcomes depend on everyone respecting them. As on roads, this doesn't always work.

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life.