A real entrepreneurs who do not need protection nets underneath

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.

If you have something at risk, you think differently.

Whales who come up and spout off get harpooned.

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it.

I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself.

It's one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment.

I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view.

Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.

Among young people . . . drinking is for getting drunk. And many go on to become alcoholics.

The purpose of a purpose is to fulfill a purpose

A leader would think that most people overestimate what they can do in a year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

People say, 'Are you afraid? Are you scared for your life?' and I tell them: If I choose today to tone it down, if I choose today to shut up, tomorrow me, you, and all of us will be forced to.

And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light of love and fainting faith.

I live about four muggings from Central Park.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.

I was really poor for most of my adult life.