Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.
Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.
It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.
We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.
A brand is a living entity-and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures.
There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.
Years later, I found myself running a network television division and then a movie studio and now an entire entertainment company. But, much of the success I've achieved can be traced to the direct and metaphorical lessons I learned in building those campfires. I can hardly think of an aspect of my life that wasn't positively affected by my camping experience.
Ninety percent of selling is conviction and 10 percent is persuasion.
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
I had to be frugal, thoughtful, resourceful. I didn't have anyone to tell me, 'You can't. ' When you're young, you think you can do anything, and that was really a gift. That's why I can never understand someone telling me 'no' today. 'No' just isn't an option.
Paradoxically, the more deeply one grows in enlightenment, the more clearly one discerns one's own frailties and limitations.