“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.”