Don’t go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you’ll land in trouble too big for you.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

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.

Common sense is not so common.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

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

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

For the first time we’re allowing developers who don’t work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That’s a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.

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

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

Whenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

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.

As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

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.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

It’s important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it’s been possible, and that window could be open for a long time – hopefully it is – or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

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

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

My business is to prevent the future.

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.

Trust, but verify.

Percentage margins don’t matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

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

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

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.

A man should never neglect his family for business.