“I never thought I was a very good manager.”

What I’ve learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.

I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.

The American public tunes in every night hoping to see two people screwing. Obviously, we can’t give them that but let’s always keep it in mind.

We need an unambiguous rule – a law – that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.

Facebook’s the real deal. Nobody can buy Facebook now. Everybody has taken an angle at it. But Facebook may be the place that organizes everybody’s personal information. It’s got a very good chance of being that.

I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

If you have too many epiphanies, you’re on some kind of drug.

The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.

Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.

We’re in a world now where it’s not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.

I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.

The entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.

This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.

Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.

When you’re a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.

The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.

The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.

Sales managers should track the number of first meetings with “right fit” prospects a sales person is engaged in on a monthly basis.

Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’

Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.

I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.