I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners.

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.

Wealth isn't about money. It's about options...and you always have options. Choose wisely. Live wealthy.

Immortals are constrained by ancient rules. But a hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.-Chiron

...one half leaning in, one half pulling away.

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.

When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.

It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.

Sleeping is the most difficult part of what I do, relaxing afterwards. Letting things go.

The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.

Character is a journey, not a destination.