My last name is originally Irish. I'm not exactly sure whereabouts it's from, but I've got family branches that were traced back there.
To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.
Back in the days of Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis, beauty wasn't the be-all and end-all it is today.
There were a lot of signs being thrown at me, a lot of angels I was meeting, inspiring me to get back into show business.
That's the ultimate gratification in any business situation - do customers buy the product? And do they use it and do they come back and buy more of it?
If you've been fortunate enough to have some success in business, I think it's important to put something back.
I go out there to win. People don't care if you die in this business. The only way I get back is with success.
I am very pleased to be back at Onex and am looking forward to helping build our business.
When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.
One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, let's all be friends in Washington philosophy.
When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
For me, conferences are like little mental vacations: a chance to go visit an interesting place for a couple of days, and come back rested and refreshed with new ideas and perspectives.
You look at 2001, we were third in points and no one gave us much of a chance when the season started. We came back last year and had the same team, the same everybody and led points.
My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool.
Catty is not cool. I can't think of anything less becoming than a man who talks about people behind their backs.
I don't need to come back to Wimbledon every year because I can't live without it. I'd be totally cool without tennis.
I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.
When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.
What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.
Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.
The mob's not coming back in the Teamsters Union. We've gotten rid of them, and we're free to be free of government supervision.
