If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.

I can't think of another enterprise other than being a homeowner that can't have its debt restructured in bankruptcy. Corporations can but a homeowner can't? Now with securitization the homeowner can't go to the owner of the loan and work things out.

A lot of executives act like their time is worth more than anyone else's. But I always respect an employee who guards his or her time, even from me.

I never stay anywhere — parties , museums, meetings — longer than 3 hours.

You always learn lessons in business.

Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational.

Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.