I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me.

A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'

It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.

The best plan now is to have as many bosses as possible. I call it boss diversity. If you work for a company and you have one boss and that boss doesn't like you or wants to get rid of you, you're in trouble. But if you work for yourself, you have lots of bosses, who are your customers, and if a few of them decide they don't like you, that's okay.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.