Business happens over years and years. Value is measured in the total upside of a business relationship, not by how much you squeezed out in any one deal.

Expect the unexpected, and always be ready - everyone has inside them what it takes to be successful. You just have to be ready to unleash it when the opportunity presents itself.

It's not in the dreaming, it's in the doing.

Even when I had nothing, I had everything. Because I love to compete.

The NBA is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

The stock market's handling of new technology is kind of a joke. We have seen CNBC, CNNfn, Bloomberg, and the like turn into home-shopping networks for stocks. Fund managers and analysts go on TV and sell what's shiny and easy to sell.

My businesses are usually built around challenging conventional wisdom, so I tend to gain by taking the other side. It's been very profitable and entertaining for me