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

I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favorite part of the business, live concerts.

One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it’s probably a bad business in which to invest.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

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

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.

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

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

All men are equal before fish.

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

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.

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.

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

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

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

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

When I say ‚Crush your enemy‘, I don’t literally mean it.

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.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes… can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

It’s safe to say headphones is a good business.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

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.

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

See, winners embrace hard work.

The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects – things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language – either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.

My business is to prevent the future.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing – stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses – makes more money for me than making movies.

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.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

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.

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

When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

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.

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

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

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.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

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

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic – I use this metaphor a lot but I’ll use it again – it’s like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries – it’s just what happens with this being, now.

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

I like to talk to myself ahead of time so when temptation comes, I’ve already made up my mind that I have the victory.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

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

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.