“In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.”

“I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.”

“I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.”

“I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.”

“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!”

“In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.”

“About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.”

“I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.”

“I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you'.”