Assets are cold.

I don't think I have ever worked in my life, because work to me means that you are really doing something that you don't like.

Go into something because you really like it, and then do it with a drive and enthusiasm so that it isn't work.

My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence.

I wouldn't write a book, because saying the word I over and over again would nauseate me.

Work isn't really work for me.

The last thing you want to do, unless it's a very unusual situation, is to invest money.

Young entrepreneurs should spend an awful lot of time thinking about what they want to go into.

Money is not a fund of knowledge.

Assets are cold.

So we have a commitment to the business and to its people.

You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.

My father was strict and always taught me, no matter who it is, everybody is an uncle. To me, everybody was someone I respect like family. I grew up with that.

My favorite films, I would put my answering machine up to the television set and hit record. I'd tape my favorite movies and then I could go back and listen to them again. I only had the soundtrack, I didn't have the visuals. But I think it made me really pay attention to the soundtracks.

There are definitely strictly independent movies. 'Gummo' is one. Another is one I made, 'Fresh,' a $3 million movie which Boaz Yakin directed.

Politics is rough and tumble everywhere, and many women recoil from that negative aspect of it - the nastiness, the charges and counter-charges.

When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?

Women, I love. It's amazing to me, because I am a swimsuit model; I'm half-naked. I just love the fact that women love me, and it makes me love them so much back.

I've been head of strategy at IBM and together with my colleagues built our five-year plan. My priorities are going to be to continue to execute on that.

That is gold which is worth gold.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it.

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

I think everybody can get along.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.

I have a very clear view, which is that if you disagree with the policies of Israel, fine, say so, but that is never a reason to take that out on Jewish communities.

Nothing is more badass than treating a woman with respect.

I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.

Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

There's a huge AIDS epidemic in Africa, and one of Bad Boy's plans this year is to give more awareness to that. We're gonna be doing a big charity concert helping to save some of the brothers and sisters in Africa.