“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”

“The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.”

“I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.”

“If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.”

“In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later.”

“I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.”

“Duty is the great business of a sea officer all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.”

“I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.”

“Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.”

“But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.”

“There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.”

“You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down.”

“Real riches are the riches possessed inside.”

“It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.”

“To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.”

“I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.”

“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.”

“If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.”

“I hate show business.”

“We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road.”

“Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.”