“I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.”

“Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.”

“What other people think about me is not my business.”

“Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.”

“Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.”

“That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.”

“I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.”

“In the coming years, if not sooner, social media will become a powerful tool that consumers will aggressively use to influence business attitudes and force companies into greater social responsibility - and, I suggest, move us towards a more sustainable practice of capitalism.”

“I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.”