“From 1991 to 1995, it was a very successful small-cap growth fund. As it got more attention and a greater inflow of money, it became difficult for (fund manager) Gary Pilgrim to continue focusing on small- and mid-cap stocks.”

“They will have to show significant improvements in profitability or a great success in a specific product to get back the market's confidence. They keep saying they want to use content to drive sales of electronics, but hoping that would happen is not a substitute for a business model.”

“A lot businesses want to insure their value. Part of succession planning is asking the question, 'What if I drop dead before we get to complete value?' A business can insure the value of the business if it had got to maturity.”

“It's absolutely huge. A district championship, any time you can get it it's absolutely huge. You expect success, but any time you can walk out as district champions it's an amazing feeling.”

“It's been a fantastic best-seller, ... I think it has been, given our expectations, a success, and we expect more out of the book. I think it will have a long life both in hardcover and eventually in paperback.”

“I never really thought about it as being one of my goals. It's just something that comes with your role on the team and how you're supposed to help the team out. With team success comes individual accolades.”

You receive the gift of time freely and equally every day, beautifully wrapped in twenty-four new hours to invest in whatever you want, and how you use each hour decides your success or the lack of it

My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level.

From the sadness, learn something; from the happiness, learn something. From the setback, learn something and even from the success learn something. Never stop learning from any situation in life, for that is where the wisdom lies.

All writers--all beings--are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of whatever carries the life force...All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land..