It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.

The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.

There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.

A brand is a living entity-and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures.

To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.

Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.

Management is not a science, it is an art.

You either play by the rules, change the rules, or get out, altogether.

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.

Win hatred with love, enemies with friendship, and cruelty with kindness.

Knowledge is the switch that turns on the light

A young man can work at excessive speed with no ill effects, but youth is unfortunately not a permanent condition of life.

A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut.

All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.

We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.

I'm a semi-literate farmer and hired killer. I ain't in the power game.

There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him