“Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.”

“The TV business is like the produce section of the market. Today everything is fresh and glistening and firm. And tomorrow, when they find a bruise on you, they toss you out.”

“Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!”

“White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.”

“One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.”

“I couldn't be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you're ridiculed.”

“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.”

“Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.”

“And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.”

“As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.”

“Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.”

“Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.”

“In terms of the technology I use the most, it's probably a tie between my Blackberry and my MacBook Pro laptop. That's how I communicate with the rest of the world and how I handle all the business I have to handle.”

“I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time.”

“There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.”

“We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.”

“Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.”

“Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.”

“Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.”

“I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?”

“If you say, 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it,' well, then you're going to alienate everybody else. When I cut my record, I'm just going to cut the things that I like, and whoever likes it, likes it. That's too much work to try to figure out the demographic. That's too much like a business.”