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

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

We’re running the company to serve more people.

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

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

I’ve noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I’m not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

I’m kind of a big kettle. It takes time to get boiled, but then I’m always hot.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

The ways of the Lord are different from the ways of man. Man’s ways remove people from office or business when they grow old or become disabled. But man’s ways are not and never will be the Lord’s ways.

I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn’t want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.

From 1945 to 1974, the Western world – including America – was more socialistic than capitalistic, more pro-labor than pro-business.

From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I’ve felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people’s lives better.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

I’m an entrepreneur. I’m a young mogul. I’m blessed.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

Remember this, folks – I am a Hillbilly, and I don’t always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.

When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths.

Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

An important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent of positive change in your own enterprise and adopt responsible practices to eliminate the risks that often lie at the root of inequality and poverty.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

I didn’t really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry… but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it’s the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

No one knows what to say in the loser’s locker room.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You’ve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by – Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.

I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods – that’s where I’m really happy.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it’s probably a bad business in which to invest.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

If I have cash and I can’t figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.