Oprah Winfrey

United States
Born on 29 Jan 1954
Media Proprietor, Talk Show Host

Quotes



One of the most important things about being a good manager is to rule with a heart. You have to know the business, but you also have to know what's at the heart of the business and that's people.
You have to surround yourself with people you trust, and people that are good. But they also have to be people who will tell the emperor you have no clothes.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays