Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks.
When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested in when people become successful. I'm interested in what made them successful.
It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.
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.
A brand is a living entity-and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures.
There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.
Years later, I found myself running a network television division and then a movie studio and now an entire entertainment company. But, much of the success I've achieved can be traced to the direct and metaphorical lessons I learned in building those campfires. I can hardly think of an aspect of my life that wasn't positively affected by my camping experience.
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell - in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.
The Grimm brothers always said that their informants were women, which is possibly not true, women of the people. There is the constant evocation of women's voices, in the collecting and arrangement of these stories, and yet the message of so many of them is incredibly misogynist. I was very puzzled by that, and that book explores that contradiction.
I think self-esteem is fluid. It's not a fixed state, and so some days are better than others.
Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No. 1.