當你想到一個主意時應當去尋覓幹的理由，而不是去琢磨不幹的藉口。

所謂企業管理就是解決一連串關係密切的問題，必須有系統地予以解決，否則將會造成損失。

無論是誰，無論是任何偏見，都不能阻止人們通過從事商業而致富。

不論從事什麼事業，都能打破現狀，安於現狀就是退步，自以為現狀已經很好，就無法再突破;不求發展，明日就會失敗，必須不斷破壞現狀，爾後才能創出新的天地。

產品要受到消費者喜歡，首先自己要對其滿意。

沒有戰略的企業就象一艘沒有舵的船，只會在原地轉圈。

今天起，強迫自己每天想一個創意，你將不難發現到處都有賺錢的機會。

創業的過程，實際上就是恒心和毅力堅持不懈的發展過程，這其中並沒有什麼秘密，要真正做到中國古老的格言所說的勤和儉也不太容易。

在香港，靠打工是絕對不行的，為他人做嫁衣，沒有前途可言，要幹就得自己

成功主要條件是：一個可辨認和有容納力的市場、充分的資本、一個能力組合均衡的領導團隊、不屈不撓精神，以及深思熟慮的時機。

一個人要幹成一番事業，其中放開眼界、抓緊時機、百折不撓、艱苦創業占95%的因素。

凡事起頭難，也最為重要，尤其在開始的階段，能按照計畫進行的少。識途老馬開始熟穩的事情時，都難免會有差錯，更何況從事從未摸過的新創事業呢!時常會被意想不到的障礙搞得一籌莫展，也就不足為奇了。

若不能從根本著手，奢談企業管理是沒有用的。管理沒有秘訣，只看肯不肯努力下功夫，凡事求其合理化，企業經營管理的理念應是追根究底，止於至善。

權力大而權威小，企業就會衰敗；權威先行，權力後隨，企業就會蒸蒸日上。

企業和企業之間的差距就是人的差距。

企業的情況很複雜，所以應該有壯士斷臂的勇氣和決心，因為這個放棄減少了對他的很多壓力和拖累，使他更有力量，尋找更好的機會來發展。

企業的經營，不能只站在單純的一個角度去看，而要從各個角度分析、觀察才行。

企業的出路在於產品更新換代。

只有家族服務於企業，企業與家族才能同時生存發展；假如企業的運營是以服務於家族為原則，則企業與家族必兩敗俱傷。

在快速成長的企業，領袖應該要多一點霸氣。

在艱難時期，企業要想獲得生存下去的機會，唯一的辦法就是保持一種始終面向外界的姿態。若想長期生存，僅有的途徑就是要使人人竭盡全力，千方百計讓下一代產品進入使用者家中。

現代企業管理的重大責任，就在於謀求企業目標與個人目標兩者的一致，兩者越一致管理效果就越好。

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come you can work together.

I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around.

That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.

I don't really read a lot of newspapers. I don't pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I've had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

When you're a restaurant critic, you're not home at night, so breakfast became really important for us.

I think when you're very dedicated to something and you're engaged fully, you become a giver.

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

I hated it when people tried to force me out when I wasn't ready. It was very painful, and it actually pushed me away from doing so.

Austerity is devastating these communities. The working poor, public sector workers, the disabled, and the vulnerable are the hardest hit by this bankrupt and ideologically driven policy.

As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.

Crime novels have a clear beginning, middle, and end: a mystery, its investigation, and its resolution. The reader expects events to play out logically and efficiently, and these expectations force the writer to spend a good deal of time working on macrostructure rather than prettifying individual sentences.

It's really easy to fall for someone on-set, but in the end you know, it's a representative and it's not really them.

You'll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing between them.

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it.

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

I consider the philosophy of the Communist Party as not applicable to our American way of life.

I myself have raised plenty of questions about Sarah Palin, much to the annoyance of the McCain campaign. But those questions have been about her qualifications and experience, never her appearance.

Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand

As an actor, you can certainly, at any moment and at any time, discover 400 people who think you're stupid, fat and ugly.

If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.

Unity is strength when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.