"The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance."

"Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future."

"Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all."

"The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you."

"Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty."

"The idea is, we're still a society where we recognize and see and even sometimes seek members of our own tribe, whatever that tribe is. It could be ethnic, religious, geographic, political."

"There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them."

"I'm a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark."