“I'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi's rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.”

“To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.”

“There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.”

“The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim, but it's always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance.”

“The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.”

“The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.'”

“Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.”

“The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.”

“If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.”

“I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.”

“It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.”

“Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.”

“Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.”

“All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.”

“In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.”

“We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.”

“Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.”

“Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.”

“America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.”

“There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.”

“I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.”