Corporate welfare, I think, is a disaster for this country. It's crippling our economy. It is contributing to a permanent underclass and corrupting the business community.

Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.

A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people and what they value.

Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility.

To do meaningful work is to contribute - to create value in society.

We must measure what leads to results, not simply what is easy to measure.

When everyone gets something for nothing, soon no one will have anything, because no one will be producing anything.

The only way you improve is to try new things.

If you never failed, then you're probably not doing very much.

A classical liberal is someone who wants a society that maximizes peace, civility, tolerance, and well-being for everyone. One that opens opportunities for everyone to advance themselves.

3 qualities of a good management

Trust means everything. But when it is broken, sorry mean nothing.

I do not want to be like a small animal bitten by a snake, going stiff with that poison. I want to bite back.

As Im writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.

I've always been criticised for how filthy my material is. Victoria Wood said to me once, 'I wish I was a bit ruder, like you,' and I said, 'Well, I wish I was a bit cleaner, like you.'

I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Because Virtue is goodness.

New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.

Taking photos is a form of collecting.

The intelligentsia has disdained commerce throughout Western history.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick