I would absolutely definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day not a photo shoot. And once you've done that your marriage becomes everybody else's business.

In the music business especially the country music business every 10 years or so you're going to have this changing of the guard this wave of new artists that comes in.

It's not hard to get your way when it's your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they're not around. I don't really like the sound of that 'cause that sounds like a temper tantrum. I'm just very black and white when it comes to my business. There's really no gray area.

Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high cultured conversations.

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business as it were and I use almost pure turpentine to start with adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help and that's my method.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends his pleasures patrons and acquaintances are his capital.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design manufacturing... layout processes and procedures.

Profit in business comes from repeat customers customers that boast about your project or service and that bring friends with them.

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic then insulin comes pretty high on the list.

Like anything else that happens on its own the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have but when it comes to the act of creation the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping how can the poor man ever relax?

Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst expect the best and take what comes.