You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.

You'll never get rich by working for your boss.

Money is color-blind, race-blind, sex-blind, degree-blind, and couldn't care less who brought you up or in what circumstances.

I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.

I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.

It's very difficult to be continuously charitable in a capitalistic society. You've also got to make sure that you can pay everyone who works for you.

You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.