Business Wisdom Quotes

I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.

I spent 26 years watching my dad, and I didn't know anything about the business until I started myself.

Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don't find one, it's you.

Now I know there are people out there who will say that the election of Barack Obama meant that it was the end of racial discrimination for all eternity, right? But I work in the investment business, and we have a saying: The numbers do not lie.

A good business book teaches simple truths.

First word [of my father] when I arrived [as a CEO] is, 'Son, i hope your first deal is a loser, otherwise, you'll think you're a lot smarter than you are.' But he had tremendous values, tremendous integrity, humility, work ethic and terrific thirst for knowledge.

I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.

Experience is not the poor relation of expertise. Valuable insights in business often come from the people on the ground.

Roddy actually was in the business longer then I was and started sooner than I did, and Roddy was a smart guy.

I have learnt so much over my 40 years of business which would have been valuable to me when I was younger.

Jews are known for many things, but strength, swiftness, and agility are not among them. There is one trait, as controversial as it is familiar, for which Jews are above all known, and that is shrewdness in business.