I have also made this a point in our company: We need to stop taking baby steps and start thinking globally. It really seems to be helping.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

Most people think small, because most people are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning. And that gives people like me a great advantage.

I wasn't satisfied just earning a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

You're only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody's dishwasher that's their own f***ing problem. If you don't settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you'll end up anything you want to be.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.