My dad is such a good man, hard-working.
I realized early on that I was pretty good at organizing. A lot of it was about control. While my friends were out getting hammered at concerts, I was making money. I am a control freak.
There's an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, 'It's not the right time just yet. ' There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance, and start your business.
One of our first customers asked me how big we want to be. I said I want to be really big. Later, it bothered me that I answered that way. Now I say I just want to be a great company.
Brand is not a product, that's for sure; it's not one item. It's an idea, it's a theory, it's a meaning, it's how you carry yourself. It's aspirational, it's inspirational.
Great brands are like great stories. And every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. And our job is to make sure that every chapter of our stories makes sense to the one in front of it and make sense to the one after it. There is no such thing as an overnight success. You have to get up and put your work boots on every single day.
It's a fire, it's a passion to get out and to create and to innovate. And that I've always enjoyed and I've always been very proud of is that the people I've done business with, the people around me have always made money.
At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.
I have been especially fortunate for about 50 years in having two memory banks available-whenever I can't remember something I ask my wife, and thus I am able to draw on this auxiliary memory bank. Moreover, there is a second way In which I get ideas. . . I listen carefully to what my wife says, and in this way I often get a good idea. I recommend to. . . young people. . . that you make a permanent acquisition of an auxiliary memory bank that you can become familiar with and draw upon throughout your lives.
I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.
I don't ever want to have a weak episode of television with my name on it.