I’m not a macroeconomics person.

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.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

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

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.

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.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

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 believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated.

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.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

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.

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

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.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

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.

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

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

The IRS! They’re like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

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

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

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

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

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

War is the business of barbarians.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

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.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

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.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

I’ve never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people’s lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.