I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars.

Los Angeles is such a town of show business and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around and you get pinned on it.

Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.

In the social business marketplace brands that hope to build loyal and growing communities do so most effectively when they demonstrate their core values and allow a community to build and engage around it.

The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim but it's always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance.

The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.

There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?

After a while of getting jerked around you realize what the business is really made up of.

A strategy is something like an innovative new product globalization taking your products around the world be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch you can motivate people with be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.

I get a lot of return business. I think it's all those years I put in traveling around the country people saw me before and had a good time so they want to see me again.

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary fine.

I don't want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn't improve what I'm trying to do. I figure once I've done my job it's none of my business.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground secretly making the ground green.