"Recognise excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs..." - Quote by Anthony Bourdain

“People everywhere have been very, very good to me, whether I'm with or without cameras.”

“I'm in no position to try to tell people how to live their family life.”

“Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures.”

“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”

“Jay Ashby is simply a great musician!”

“That's my job - to make sure everything is great.”

“If you're entering anything where there's an existing marketplace, against large, entrenched competitors, then your product or service needs to be much better than theirs. It can't be a little bit better, because then you put yourself in the shoes of the consumer... you're always going to buy the trusted brand unless there's a big difference.”

“Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

“I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed.”