The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

I won’t do something unless I can get at least two or three good laughs out of it. If I can’t, it’s not gonna make the team.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don’t just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

Leadership is influence.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they’re not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

I’m not in the business of ranking or debating who is what.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

I always wanted to do things right and represent myself as somebody that took the art serious and someone that took the business serious also, so I had time to weigh the options and figure it out and do my best to create the situation that was ideal.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

There’s a reason why the Foo Fighters don’t blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that’s hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn’t really come up, or it just hasn’t felt right.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it’s an illusory sense of control.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

Football is big business – you can’t get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

Achieving the highest possible return on human capital must be every manager’s goal.

Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you have to go with don’t go back on it.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.