Bad times are indelible. They stay with you forever.

Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?

I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait.

I'm sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants operator. But if that were true, I could never have been successful in this business.

I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.