“The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.”

You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

Don’t expect people to respect you for what you are “planning” to do.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Whatever you resist will persist.

Mediocrity is the worst enemy of prosperity.

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.

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

The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.

I feel quite proud to be an ambassador for women who realize that being fit is better than being skinny.

I sound the same regardless if I’m 20 pounds heavier or 20 pounds light, and I think that’s the key thing with my fans and why they continue to be loyal because I’m that type of person.

Don’t be concerned that things appear to be falling apart: this has to happen in order for something new and wonderful to emerge.

Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.

I love Rihanna. I think her style just pushes a lot of boundaries. My tomboy side takes inspiration from her.

So there’s nothing more vulgar than the sound of someone saying, God Bless America, someone who doesn’t really believe it, but he thinks it will make him look good to other people. I think it’s the most nauseating spectacle.

First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I’ve lost Onassis.

My style kind of differs – sometimes I want to be a little dressed down, a little tomboy, sometimes I want to be dressed up and very chic and look proper. But I don’t ever believe in overdoing it for day-to-day style.