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

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 supported Donald Trump.

You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I’ve never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

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.

I don’t think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It’s lonely out here.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing – stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses – makes more money for me than making movies.

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.

I’m strictly for Stevenson. I don’t dig the intellectual bit, but I’m telling you, man, he knows the most.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you’re rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

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

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

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.

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

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.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

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.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

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.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Who’s to say what’s a good voice and not a good voice?

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

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

Knowledge is true opinion.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

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

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

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

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

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.

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

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

I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

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.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

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.

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

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.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

That’s when it becomes a business. When you’ve been public a long time, when it’s a career. You do certain films, you sell them.