I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

Happy is harder than money. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy hasn't got money.

I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.

I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.

I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!

You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.

I'm not Sammy Glick. I've never killed anyone. I don't have to. I'm too talented.

I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.

To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.

It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life.

Move to California. Malibu is paradise.

My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.

I am truly my mother's son.

It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.

Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.

It's the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn't get what they wanted.

In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.

I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

Broke is a Hollywood term!

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.

I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job.

Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.

We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is.

Slovakia's joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.

The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.

It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed.

The surest way to return to the people's business is to listen to the people themselves: We need to drop this whole scheme of federally controlled health care, start over, and work together on real reforms at the state level that will contain costs and won't leave America trillions of dollars deeper in debt.

Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.

You have to be a star to be in this business.

The government must do all it can to help reduce interest rates for business.

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

I have never had anything done. I've been asked if I had breast implants. Whether I did or not, it's nobody's business but my own.

You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.

They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.