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.

As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.

The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.

When you come across real talent, it is sometimes worth allowing them to create the structure in which they choose to labor. In nine cases out of ten, by inviting them to take responsibility and control for a new venture, you will motivate them to do great things.

I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive.

America is not the center of the universe.

Without self belief nothing can be accomplished. With it, nothing is impossible.