Balanced emotions are crucial to intuitive decision making.

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.

I gravitate toward the team thing. I'm not a golfer - I much prefer basketball.

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.

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

Doing stuff that I don't have to talk about because I'm not in a public company is fantastic.

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.