He's a machine for competitive balance, ... Yes, the money is in New York. Yes, the money is in his hands. But he squanders money. Thank God for it.

Why pay $20 million to Harrison Ford? I dont even understand that. They think they have to do it... If someone puts a price on himself, that suggests he is irreplaceable, then he better find somewhere else to work.

I always find with my stories that the way they start is that I just get so interested in a person that I'm compelled to go back to them over and over until I learn more and more about them, without even quite thinking it's material for a book.

In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.

The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance.

In their leaders, advisers, and experts, people much prefer overconfidence, total certainty, to any kind of doubt.

It is far better to keep the enemy close, by bribing him with stock options, than to have him out in the wild, foraging.