Every great business leader I've ever met, in addition to being very smart, very driven, they have this, 'Why not me? Screw it, I deserve it, let's go.' And if you don't have that, you can't achieve greatness.

There are agencies who are good losers, places where losing is not only accepted, it becomes part of the culture, it is expected. That is debilitating. Don't let that happen to you. At Deutsch we go into every pitch assuming we are the Yankees. It's amazing what happens when you go into a room of smart, hungry people and say, "Failure is not an option." People are galvanized.

If you can't embrace both failure or the possibility of failure, or the tremendous fear of failure, you can't be wildly successful. It's just an axiomatic truth.

You know you're doing what you love when Sunday nights feel the same as Friday nights.

When I looked into the mechanics of being a businessman, I found it wasn't rocket science.

And here's what management is: motivating people and putting them in places where they can succeed.

I appear wild on the outside, but I'm a conservative businessman.