“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”

We don’t get paid for being busy, we get paid for being right.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

I never invest in anything that I don’t understand.

You can’t make a good deal with a bad person.

The secret to happiness is having low expectations.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

I am not a businessman, I am an artist.

It’s only when the tide goes out that you discover who’s been swimming naked.

What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

It’s nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don’t want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it’s a little like saving sex for your old age.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you’ll do things differently.

If you’re in the luckiest one percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

No matter what business you’re in, you can’t run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn’t matter how many games you’ve won.

Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It’s much more of a business – very scientific.

Didn’t want to be a star, wanted just to play guitar in this cockamamie business.

I wanted to become an engineer, or get a masters in business. But I had the opportunity to do films when I was about 25 and it was a great way to express myself.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

I started acting when I was seven-years-old. By the time I was 17 I would say: “If I’m not a star by the time I’m 18, I’ll get out of the business.”

I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone’s got their own definition.