When you're in an economic downturn, what you want is to create jobs and economic growth. And the recipe isn't Republican or Democrat. It's low taxes, low spending, less regulation, free trade.

Fannie and Freddie are creations of government. They were given a huge leg up over their competitors.

It doesn't matter if it's a Republican or a Democrat. If you do the right policies, you get economic growth.

Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.

When you have a strong company culture it will shine through your brand and you can authentically say, “This is what our brand is about.

Remember, life is too short to be spent dancing with idiots.

We both spend our money on things that break too easily like… people.

It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.

If people offer me decent roles in good films, of course I'll take it. But I just didn't like the actor lifestyle. You end up focusing all your energy on trying to get parts you don't even want.

I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.

You just don't know when you can find the bottom.

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

We have created stability, which is a necessary condition for development. But I can't call this system authoritarian.