I’m not a macroeconomics person.

I’m not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose… it’ll be much harder to detect.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

The nuclear approach I’m involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There’s a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true – many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Real art has been… what’s the word? Kidnapped? No, that’s not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today’s winners are tomorrow’s blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as ‚failed states.‘

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.

It’s safe to say headphones is a good business.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

All art is quite useless.

If you look at ‚Blade Runner,‘ it’s been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it’s possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

Foreigners don’t want to invest any more in France – and this is not working.

The racing is quite boring, sometimes. It’s hard to see how it pulls in fans.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples‘ money.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

I’m not in the business of ranking or debating who is what.

I’m always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.

A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

‚Credit‘ is another word for trustworthiness.

Atoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so on. It is the job of physics to analyze why each one wants what it wants.

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.

It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.