Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching so confidence-splattering so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn't have to come in contact with it.

McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.

I used to work for a management consulting company so I dressed differently - business casual probably a lot of things from Banana Republic. My wardrobe now is definitely more expensive but I always dress for the occasion.

I've drunk Amazon's free Diet Coke. Nothing makes more sense to me than a company trying to make bookselling into a profitable business. I'm not anti-Amazon and I'm not pro-publishers either. I'm pro-books.

If an Internet company steals content they shut it down. And let me tell you Apple France Yahoo France or Google France none of them have gone out of business.

All those lessons that I've learned on the court I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business my company called V Starr interiors an interior design company and EleVen which I wear on court.

Our company is built on people - those who work for us and those we do business with.

Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.

You can't operate a company by fear because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

Willingness to change is a strength even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down simply by spending his money somewhere else.

If there's one thing I really want for my birthday that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve.

The best plan now is to have as many bosses as possible. I call it boss diversity. If you work for a company and you have one boss and that boss doesn't like you or wants to get rid of you you're in trouble. But if you work for yourself you have lots of bosses who are your customers and if a few of them decide they don't like you that's okay.

Employees are a company's greatest asset - they're your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best provide them with encouragement stimulus and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company's mission.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you whose presence calls forth your best.

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.