Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?

When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.

We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.

Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

None of Us is as Good as All of Us.

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?

We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.

You're only as good as the people you hire.

If youre not a risk taker you should get the hell out of business.

If you work just for money youll never make it but if you love what youre doing and you always put the customer first success will be yours.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat the luckier you get.

We have an obligation to give something back to the community that gives so much to us.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

I made up my mind that I wanted everything, and nothing would stop me.

My first show was called 'I Know I've Been Changed' in '92. I tried to do this show for years and years. It kept failing over and over and over again. Every time I went out to do the show, nobody showed up. I was like, 'What is this about?'

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

We already have many of the technologies and tools that we need to build a sustainable future. What we don't have is a new way of thinking, and that's really the hardest part.

I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.

What I know most is that the difference between us is what makes us interesting and attractive and problematic and exciting and vital to each other. Give me difference over indifference any day.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

My father always said, 'If you love what you do, you won't mind slogging through it for several hours a day.'

The great thing about women directors is that they're not only involved in the performances - they can gauge where we all are personally and know how to direct us better because of that.

When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.

I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan. Dad used to take me to Bears games and Cubs games. My brother used to ride me over to Lake Forest College on his Honda Supersport and we'd watch the Bears practice. I remember those guys out there as monsters - they were the biggest things I've ever seen!

This emergency spending measure is certainly only the beginning, since we here in Washington will continue to work closely with the president and emergency agencies to ensure they continue receiving the funding they need.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

The body should be reconfigured by the clothes, never again the other way round.

I'm interested in making films that make people think.

I see myself as life-sized, certainly not a supersized personality, and apparently after 30 years of television, that's what the audience thinks of me as well. I know this because for the first time in my career, I've just seen market research, and the thing I am known for is being authentic.

I didn't kill anyone that didn't deserve killing in the first place.

One of the favorite tricks of the Democrats is to try to get the Republicans to pass over their strongest candidate and nominate instead a candidate who will be easy to beat.

The greenhouse effect is something you can observe experimentally - and most people have observed the greenhouse effect themselves, in greenhouses. Yes?

When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, 'Hey, you hockey puck!'

As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you can't possibly please everyone.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta.