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

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.

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

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.

Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

Too much TV hurts movies.

If you win two games, one game or three games, you can still say it’s luck. But when you win a championship over 18 games, it’s not luck.

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It’s the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

I’ve never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn’t have any newspapers or magazines to read.

I’m trying to get to Mars before everyone else.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

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.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

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

Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

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.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

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

I certainly would not like to end up in a tie-up with Ms. Rousey.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother’s milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won’t be any winners.

I think right now it’s a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right now iPhone and Android are winning that battle.

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

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

When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you’re not just bringing the products, but you’re also harming local manufacturers.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

When my book ‚Rich Dad’s Prophecy‘ was released in 2002, most financial newspapers and magazines trashed it because I discussed a looming stock market crash.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

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

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

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.

My first win feels better than a draw!

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

I love going one-on-one with someone. That’s what I do. I’ve never lost. It’s a whole different game, just to have them right in front of you and be able to do whatever you want.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

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.

The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

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.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

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

Competition is a sin.

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.