What are some characteristics of an entreprenuer? — Self-confidence, self-determination, being a self-starter, judgement, commitment, perseverance, initiative

Profit maximisation

Profit satisficing

What are important entrepreneurial skills?

What are the financial reasons people set up a business?

What are the non-financial reasons people set up a business?

What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.

I grew up a little north of New York City and went to high school at Regis, an all-boys tuition-free high school in Manhattan.

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.

I tend to write things and don't go the next step and try to get it published. I don't want to do book signings and stuff.

Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.

I don't know if this is too weird to say, but this is completely surreal for me. Bizarre. The cover of 'Teen Vogue' has been on my bucket list forever.

I believe that the death penalty is an effective penalty.

'Eureka' was very bad timing. The early 1980s: Reagan and Thatcher were in, greed was good, and here was a film about the richest man in the world who still couldn't be happy. Politically and sociologically, it was out of step.

The beautiful thing about fear is, when you run to it, it runs away.

I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred.

I know many older writers who were very successful and whose books are now out of print, so you have to go to antiquarian booksellers to buy their fifth or eighth novel or whatever it is.

I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.

The gay-rights community had a strategy going in; they thought that they needed to have 30 states with some form of recognition - whether that be marriage, whether it be civil unions - but they wanted to have 30 states signed on before they went to the federal courts.

What's the worst that can happen? I get knocked out. At least I tried.

What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.

My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

I love spaghetti. And I like to cook spaghetti. And I used to eat it every day. I weighed thirty pounds more than I do now. You can't - you can't do that.

For if you bake bread with indifference you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half mans hunger.

The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.