Michael Ovitz

We were going to have coffee.

He said, come with me.

And he took me to the coffee room and then proceeded to spend 10 minutes explaining to me how you brew the perfect cup of coffee.

And I realized...

It was so fantastic.

He had studied it all.

He knew exactly what to do when, how to roast the coffee, how to grind it, where to put it in, what kind of water to use, all stuff that none of us think about.

And I said to myself, that is a metaphor for life, making a cup of coffee.

It's kind of like a Japanese tea ceremony.

He took all the components apart and isolated them and then put them into a fluid movement.

Momentum to me is the single most important thing in anything we do.

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It's important in life to keep momentum going of your interests and your family.

In business, if you don't have momentum, you have no business.

In sports, momentum changes.

Second place teams to first place teams.

Momentum may be one of the most underutilized, most critical thing in life.

I don't think getting momentum is a science.

It's more an art form.

I think that momentum is about extraordinarily hard industrious work.