Fortune favors the prepared mind.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.

Success is dependent on effort.

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.