Amy Poehler

You know, it sounds like I’m bragging in some way, but as far as career stuff, there’s not that much stuff that scares me. I know what I can do well.

I remember Tina Fey wrote a play about Catherine the Great f**king a horse and I thought, ‘That lady is hot stuff, I wanna know her.’

[at the 2013 Golden Globe Awards] Meryl Streep is not here tonight. She has the flu and I hear she’s amazing in it.

When your children arrive, your heart becomes a room with wide open windows.

You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.

It takes years to find your voice and seize your real estate.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word: excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

If you have a dream, don’t let anybody take it away.

I’ve seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage – leverage being borrowed money. You really don’t need leverage in this world much. If you’re smart, you’re going to make a lot of money without borrowing.

New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

I’ve always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.

If you are going to dream, dream big.

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.