“As the Zen Buddhist saying goes, how you do anything is how you do everything.”

The mind can be convinced, but the heart must be won.

Passion alone can’t cut it. For passion to survive it needs structure. A why without how has little probability of success.

Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can’t see. They are good at giving us things we would never think of asking for.

Be the best friend you can be.

You don’t hire for skills, you hire for attitude. You can always teach skills.

True strength is the courage to ask for help.

Bad leaders care about who is right, good leaders care about who is right.

Focus on long term success but be willing to make short term adjustments to get there.

The true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own.

Every day we make decisions, big and small. Those choices paint a picture of who we are.

A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other.

There are only two ways to influence human behaviour: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.

Let us all be the leaders we wish we had.

A leader is the one who speaks last and acts first.

The role of a leader is not to come up with all the great ideas. The role of a leader is to create an environment in which great ideas can happen.

The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.

Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No.1

We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.

Too many rules stifle innovation.

Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.