Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

The last thing I'd learn, well into my career, was how to get on, how to say hello, how to get in with the audience.

What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.

Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off.

And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.

The big money goes to kids and young men - big tent-pole movies, which are expensive but have a great return.

Carefully calculate the potential size of your market to make sure you can grow. Before starting Mint, I knew that there were about 20 million people who had purchased 'Quicken' or 'Microsoft Money' over the years, and 80 million people using online banking in the U.S. alone.

Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.