If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.

But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.

There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.

As a group, anthropologists are not too fond of people who work in the business world.

You can't buy back your respect; you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.

The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of the story of life on earth. It struck that paleontology was the career for me.

I've been so blessed to have my career gradually get bigger and bigger, so I've been able to absorb stuff and take stuff gradually.