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.

Today, medical devices such as catheters and stethoscopes use silver, and every hospital in the western world uses silver sulfadiazine to prevent infections.

The movie business is a big gamble.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

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.

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.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

War is the business of barbarians.

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

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.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn’t want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

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

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

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

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.

By reading, you learn through others‘ experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

Although I don’t like the way the Chinese do business, I continue to do business in China. I have to. They’re the next world power.

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

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.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

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.

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.

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.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

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

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.

I’m a real estate guy.

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

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

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.

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

When I was a kid, there were no credit cards. Instead, retailers offered layaway plans. My mom would go to a store, such as a furniture outlet, choose the sofa she wanted, and put it on layaway. That meant she put a little money down to hold the sofa, and every payday she’d pay a little toward the purchase.

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.

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.

From the late 1940s, into and through the ’50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country.

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

I’m in this business to be creative – I’ll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.

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

There may be less of a chance of losing all the money you put into a mutual fund than there is of losing all the money you put into lottery tickets, but you’re never going to win big in a mutual fund.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

I just don’t like mutual funds. I think they’re a rip-off.

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

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

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

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

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

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

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.

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.