I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.