“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.”