“I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.”

“We have to make America the best place in the world to do business.”

“When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.”

“The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.”

“It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.”

“Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.”

“When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business I have to humiliate myself.”

“I know from my own experience and from other people in the business that when you come from a place where nobody knew who you were and then there is this sudden shift to where everybody now knows who you are, there's an adjustment that you have to make.”

“I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.”

“The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.”

“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”

“You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.”

“My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.”

“The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.”

“Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.”

“Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business.”

“My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.”

“Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.”

“It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.”

“As a speaker, business leader or marketer of any type, the onus is now on each of us to become equally capable of communicating very personally with a seemingly endless number of people connected by social technologies.”

“The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.”