When I saw all those other drivers I realized that they wanted to win that money just as much as I did. But I didn't have to worry. A tire came off my car and I was lucky I got it off the track.

You're safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.

It seems to me I spent my life in car pools but you know that's how I kept track of what was going on.

Don't solicit feedback on your product idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward but if you're just looking to your friend co-worker husband or wife for validation be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in the beginning.

Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.

In this business my business I get to meet all kinds of incredible people fascinating people glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting interesting interesting'. They're interesting but not very many people stop you in your tracks.

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

In business or in life don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

I have a book out called 'The Beauty Equation' and it discusses how off track we have gone in considering beauty.