“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.”

The journey is the reward.

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.

It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.

Your customers don’t care about you. They don’t care about your product or service. They care about themselves, their dreams, their goals. Now, they will care much more if you help them reach their goals, and to do that, you must understand their goals, as well as their needs and deepest desires.

A brand is simply trust.

The most precious resource we have is time.

Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences.

If you don’t cannibalize yourself, someone else will.

Great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people.

You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on.

Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity – not a threat.

The most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do.

Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.

In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.

Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.

Pursue your dreams and see the opportunities in life’s setbacks.

I wanted to become an engineer, or get a masters in business. But I had the opportunity to do films when I was about 25 and it was a great way to express myself.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

I started acting when I was seven-years-old. By the time I was 17 I would say: “If I’m not a star by the time I’m 18, I’ll get out of the business.”

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

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone’s got their own definition.

I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I’m in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.

Movies are the shadiest business in the world.

There’s too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.