Whatever you do, don't play it safe. Don't do things the way they've always been done. Don't try to fit the system. If you do what's expected of you, you'll never accomplish more than others expect.

I've traveled around the world, and what's so revealing is that, despite the differences in culture, politics, language, how people dress, there is a universal feeling that we all want the same thing. We deeply want to be respected and appreciated for our differences.

I'm optimistic about the country; I'm optimistic about the American people.

Good results is not an entitlement. It has to be earned and earned each individual working day via the lens of humility.

Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture.

In anything we do, any endeavor, it's not what you do; it's why you do it

If you put on a lousy production with white actors, it's lousy. There is a problem, or can be, at this stage of our social evolution, with mixing the casts. It may not be a question of race so much as class. You would rarely find a black man in a high executive position where he was swinging his weight around.