The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

The people who are buying stocks because they’re going up and they don’t know what they do deserve to lose money.

I think that any reporter or columnist will be a little more careful when doing interviews with me.

I don’t go near the money and the money doesn’t go near me.

The gun went off accidentally.

The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.

Humor can be one of our best survival tools.

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.

It’s very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they’ve made to my life.

Make another list of things done for you that you loved. Do them for others, always.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can’t be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

I don’t think that’s changed at all. I think there are a thousand stocks out there that could make you rich, totally independent of what you do for a living.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn’t pop. I’ll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them.

The integrity of the game is everything.

We wanted Nike to be the world’s best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don’t end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour.

I can only have dinner with my girlfriends once a month instead of once a week.

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.

If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

Good enough never is.

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he’s in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.

I think that there are changes that have occurred in technology that make is that more people can have the same level of information that I have. My advantage is that I’m very good at...

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.

Information is a negotiator’s greatest weapon.

We’re trying to put ourselves in the best position to win, period, if not this year, next year.

In any organization men would move up from the bottom to the top. That develops loyalty, ambition and talent, because there is a chance for promotion.

To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.

The whole trial seemed surreal.

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.

It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.

I believe we’re all in denial about the people we love.

Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.

Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked...

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

The way the credit cards were made in the ’80s to be a people’s form of capitalism and be able to make it so that you could get a loan that you would have been...

Make sure you are the boss. I don’t think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization.

I think you have to learn that there’s a company behind every stock, and that there’s only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies...

I’m dealing in rock’n’roll. I’m, like, I’m not a bona fide human being.

I do want to go out on top, as a winner.

Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.

And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.

I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service.