Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.
If you aren't afraid to fail, then you probably don't care enough about success.
You don't have to reinvent the wheel, just attach it to a new wagon.
All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.
The best people know that there are two phases in every crisis: the one where you manage it and the other where you learn from it. To succeed you have to do both
Commit yourself to quality from day one. . . it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.
In our business, the windows of opportunity open and close with dazzling rapidity. . . I constantly have to remind people to seize the moment.
No one is going to beat the crap out of me more than me.
It would be cool for someone to ask me about some of the structural choices I make with my albums.
From the Cooperative League, I suppose, with the Depression lingering as long as it did, the next step in terms of, as you call it, professional relationship, was to go to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]. I went there as an assistant field secretary, and so forth. So, I suppose that was the first organized step.
When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.