“When you’re building a business, you’re either all in, or you’re not.”

Especially if you’re over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.

I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you’re quoted in the ‘Wall Street Journal,’ the ‘New York Times,’ constantly as the expert in the business people assume you’re a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.

When you’re a big money earner and your husband isn’t, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or ‘Mrs. Higgins.

I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.

The wheels of justice – they’re square wheels.

The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.

That ability to pop back up is true of anyone who succeeds in their field.

My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.

My best successes came on the heels of failures.

If you want to be noticed, dress the part.

Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both.

I’ve seen innovation come from something as simple as a resourceful multibillionaire who wanted to make even more money.

If you stand back and analyze the best way to do something, you’ll be standing there forever. Follow your gut and jump right in!

All the best things that happened to me happened after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no.

The difference between the real winners is how long they take to feel sorry for themselves. My winners feel it… but they come back up and say ‘hit me again.’

Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?

The strategy for peace-building in Afghanistan is economic aid, reconstruction, international security forces. On those lines, the U.S. has been extremely slow. And it has even blocked expanding security forces from Kabul to other cities.

I can play with that opportunity or not. This is my right, or poetic license, as someone who is building an artefact of fantasy – this implicit pact with the reader is my starting point.

We try to avoid the single-building syndrome. You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn’t work. You have to do it all together.

Never worry about the delay of your success compared to others, because construction of a palace takes more time than an ordinary building.

This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.

When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart.

All the aspects of playwriting, scene-building, the architecture of dramatizing.

When a man jumps out of a ten-story building.