"Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed."

"Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future."

"If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger."

"Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event."

"Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."

"When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent."

"You can't buy back your respect you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up."

"Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works, it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work, it's almost just as fascinating."