“You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.”

“Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.”

“The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.”

“The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.”

“Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.”

“Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.”

“I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business.”

“Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more.”

“What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.”