People treat life as though it's the dress rehearsal for some big show. It's not. This is it.
No person can get very far in this life on a 40 hour week.
Take good care of your employees, and they'll take good care of your customers, and the customers will come back.
It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.
Motivate them, train them, care about them, and make winners out of them. . . they'll treat the customers right. And if customers are treated right, they'll come back.
Great companies are built by people who never stop thinking about ways to improve the business.
Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees
If a director takes the time to document - to step back to observe - I think it I more honest. Because it has to be the public that makes the conclusions and who, possibly, resolves the situation.
Once I have a vision of something I want to accomplish, I tend to slog doggedly toward my goal until I achieve it; this is a skill from my youth.
The United States has been very clear that we did have to have some political basis to make clear that that cessation of hostilities was not going to countenance a return to the status quo ante. This resolution does that. And now we're going to see who is for peace and who isn't.
Because of my age, the roles that I'm in doesn't have as much depth as I would like, but that will change. Halle Berry, Angelina Jolie, they play heavy, meaty roles, which are the sort that I want to play. . . because of what I look like, I play with my looks, which is cool, but I've done it so many times. But one day I would love to play against my looks.