The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Every year around Christmas and Thanksgiving, I buy a bunch of toys for the sick children in the oncology center at the St. Louis Children's Hospital. I really love giving back and putting a smile on their faces, especially during the holidays.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.

Example is leadership.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

To be prepared is half the victory.