My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.

It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.

There's no good idea that can't be improved on.

Over time, the product we produce has been consistently successful here in America and around the world. Apparently, we are doing something right.

A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.'

If it's not growing, it's going to die.

My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don't mind kicking sand in your face.

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

21 years as CEO is a long time. I was and probably still am the longest serving CEO in America. Certainly I am in the media industry, bar none.

Doing stuff that I don't have to talk about because I'm not in a public company is fantastic.

Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be background noise.

Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.

I don't think individual achievement in business is the most meaningful way for it to operate.

I find that, once you get into a position where you can afford a pair of shoes and a decent level of living, success in itself is empty.

I gravitate toward the team thing. I'm not a golfer - I much prefer basketball.

I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea.

In every business, in every industry, management does matter.

Many people you think are individual achievers in fact have either a strong spousal partner over many years or a business partner who's either in the background, not given enough publicity or less egocentric.

My best idea was to not accept my wife's negative reaction when I asked her to marry me.

Nobody has a bigger cult than Warren Buffett.

The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It's just that the group that is not wealthy is 95 percent of the population. So if there are 100 successful people in a room, probably 95 out of 100 came from more modest means.

There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.

When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested in when people become successful. I'm interested in what made them successful.

You just have to make sure the model you're working on does not undersell your product.

Is doing business with a partner better than going at it alone My answer is yes. Nothing in business is more rewarding. Working together is is much better than working alone.

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make money.

Privacy laws are our biggest impediment to us obtaining our objectives.

Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.

Our strength in finance has led us to set up an international financial centre with medium and long-term objectives, especially to develop Islamic financial and insurance services.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic.

My strength is my enthusiasm.

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.

That's one strength that Stevie has. She's really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that.

You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.