“When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.”

“Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.”

“I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can't say I would turn my back on fortune. I'm someone who enjoys the benefits of money.”

“The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.”

“Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.”

“Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.”

“My home has always been show business.”

“Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.”

“Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.”

“The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.”

“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.”

“I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.”

“You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.”

“Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.”

“If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.”

“A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.”

“This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.”

“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”

“We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business.”

“I cannot stand the people who get wonderful starts in show business and who abuse it. Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen, for example, although there are plenty of others, too. They are the most blessed people in the world, and they don't appreciate it.”

“The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.”