When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
I get terrible reviews everywhere I go.
I've been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there's no place like New Orleans. It's got the best food. It's got the best music. It's got the best people. It's got the most fun stuff to do.
Life is really like that: there are certain things that are wonderful and certain things that are not so wonderful and what you are going to do about it. With grace and with dignity, move through them. Deal with them.
New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse. . .
I never dated much. I dated one girl before my wife, and that was it.
It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.
In a service situation, each delay can mean many unsatisfied customers, each one telling many more.
True leadership must have follower-ship. Management styles can vary, but even an autocrat needs people who believe and simply don't follow from fear.
And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake.
The army of the emboldened and gleefully ill-informed is growing.