“If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!”

“Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.”

“I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.”

“Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.”

“Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.”

“I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.”

“In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.”

“My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.”

“The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.”

“The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.”

“My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.”

“So little done, so much to do.”

“If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.”

“I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn't think that, there would be something wrong with me. I'm grateful and thankful for what I've got.”

“Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.”

“If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.”

“In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks.”

“Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.”

“Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.”

“I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.”

“Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.”