I think the astronaut job is the best job in the world. I realized when I was older and started applying for it that it's a pretty cool job.
Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts. One guy had been in jail.
You are forced to have the best data capture, the best information, when you have goods in hundreds of factories around the world, and the question is: 'Where is everything?' And how do you bring it all together?
There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand', meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.
I discovered that the best thing for me was to be very busy all the time. I can get a lot done, and I can do those tasks well.
Natural gas is the best transportation fuel. It's better than gasoline or diesel. It's cleaner, it's cheaper, and it's domestic. Natural gas is 97 percent domestic fuel, North America.
I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.
Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.
The United Kingdom has traditionally been a very small market, and even though you had such a creative group of designers, they represented a risk to department stores.
Brands will increasingly handle their own e-commerce and rely less and less on local distribution partners. Why should they give away their profit margins?
Net-a-porter is an environment where a woman can really indulge, browsing through more than 160 brands in our fashion playground.
As a woman, I feel it's important to support causes that are important to my core customer, who is also a woman, as well as causes that resonate with me personally.
Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.
Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.
In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.
Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing!
A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.
When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'
