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

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

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

A word to the wise is infuriating.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

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

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

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

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

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.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run.

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.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

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.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

I love big business!

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

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.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

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.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

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

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

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

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!

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

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

If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

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

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it’s feet first!

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.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it’s not going to get the business.

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

Leadership is influence.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

America isn’t Congress. America isn’t Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

Basically what I’m trying to tell you is that it’s almost impossible to drive a jet ski at night time unless you’re in a city with lights lit up so you can navigate. Besides being pitch black, that water turn black at night. Listen, I don’t recommend it.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

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

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

A wet spot on the floor kind of put a scare in myself, so you never know inside those lines what might happen.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

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.

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 always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn’t sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours‘ writing. Nothing.