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

I think that every artist – or anybody that’s in business – could benefit from a direct-to-consumer strategy, so I think that that applies to us as artists and content creators, too.

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

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

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

I’m a real estate guy.

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

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don’t have any insecurities.

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

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

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

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.

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

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

There are good examples of companies – Coca-Cola is one – that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

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

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

When you say ‚follow me on Twitter,‘ and you get 10 million people to follow you – you just leveraged your influence to add value to an app that you have no ownership in.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

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.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Because we’re actors we can pretend and fake it, but I’d rather the intimate investment was authentic.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

I wish we could be private with Tesla. It actually makes us less efficient to be a public company.

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.

China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it’s not an ‚us versus them,‘ it’s an ‚us and them‘ type scenario.

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.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

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.

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

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

This 90/10 rule holds true in almost anything financial. Take the game of golf, for example. Ten percent of the professional golfers make 90 percent of the money.

I want to be Robin to Bush’s Batman.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business – just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I’m an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you’re being compromised.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it’s made by Warren Buffett.

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

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

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

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

Folks, you’re the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.