There is no failure except failure to serve one's purpose.
Success is the by-product when you work toward the target.
I think we are living in a time where the consumer has lots of choices, whether it's coffee, newspapers or whatever it is. And there is parity in the market place, and as a result of that, the consumer is beginning to make decisions, not just on what things cost and the convenience of it.
The lifeblood of job creation in America is small business, but they can't get access to credit.
Effective leaders share two intertwined attributes: an unbridled level of confidence about where their organizations are headed, and the ability to bring people along.
The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.
You must find something that you deeply love and are passionate about and are willing to sacrifice a lot to achieve.
The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.
How quickly a zek (a prisoner) gets cheeky-or, putting it in literary language, how quickly a man's requirements grow.
I write what I can. I think being able to write like Michael Connelly and have a character that goes from novel to novel, or to dramatize history like Vidal or Ellroy, or have an explosively inventive mind like Bulgakov, would be an incredible thing. I don't have that. I only have what I have.
Belief builds from scratch. Doesn’t have to relax, it doesn’t need space