I am always asking myself how I can improve the lives of my customers, my colleagues, my shareholders, my family and my friends.

I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

I want to focus on my salad.

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

Study your strengths; then decide how hard you want to work

I try to seek out and surround myself with people who just percolate fresh, original, and creative ideas.

I live in the same house I’ve lived in for 25 years. I haven’t gone off and bought mansions, you know, even though my subject is living… living in a mansion wouldn’t do for my readers. I have to keep my credibility alive with my readers, so we’re in the same place. I just make that place nicer and nicer. And… and that’s a secret. And people don’t know that. People think, oh, she lives in this fabulous place, it’s the same old place. It started out like a farm, it got to be a farmette, then it got to be an estatelet. I built a wall, it helped a lot. But it’s the same place, the same grounded nature.