The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It's just that the group that is not wealthy is 95 percent of the population. So if there are 100 successful people in a room, probably 95 out of 100 came from more modest means.

The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.

Many people you think are individual achievers in fact have either a strong spousal partner over many years or a business partner who's either in the background, not given enough publicity or less egocentric.

My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.

A brand is a living entity-and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures.

The company should be run from a creative point of view rather than a financial point of view.

I always went into an area that was in last place, with a philosophy, 'You can't fall off the floor.' And I was lucky, was at the right time and the right place, with the right ideas, and each one of these areas became number one.