“The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.”

Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!

Vision without execution is delusion.

Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.

There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.

Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.

You can’t realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.

I never did a day’s work in my life, it was all fun.

What you are will show in what you do.

Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.

Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.

When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.

A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job.

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.

Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.

I come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business; I had an aborted law career and I played in bands. ‘Disco Pigs’ was my first professional acting experience.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status – there’s joy in that.

One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.

There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.

I’m in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.