When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested in when people become successful. I'm interested in what made them successful.

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.

My best idea was to not accept my wife's negative reaction when I asked her to marry me.

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.

In every business, in every industry, management does matter.

I think when you get inured with the past, you get committed to the past, you stop growing.

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