“If an Internet company steals content, they shut it down. And let me tell you, Apple France, Yahoo France or Google France, none of them have gone out of business.”

“What makes the most money for this business? Dead rock stars.”

“Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.”

“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.”

“But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.”

“Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.”

“The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'”

“Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It's about whether or not you get the chance to do good work.”

“If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond, you have to allow them to respond as they're going to respond. Some of the people are going to be uninterested and some people are going to be mad for some reason, which is their business. That's just the way the world is.”

“When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.”

“If bad things are going to be said about me, I have to bear that. If I don't understand that it's part of being in show business, then I'd better go work in a bank.”

“I've drunk Amazon's free Diet Coke. Nothing makes more sense to me than a company trying to make bookselling into a profitable business. I'm not anti-Amazon, and I'm not pro-publishers either. I'm pro-books.”

“You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.”

“I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.”

“Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.”

“McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.”

“And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.”

“Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.”

“I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.”

“I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.”

“Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.”