Well, when you’re trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

Give the lady what she wants!

If the Wright Brothers were alive today, Orville would have to lay off Wilbur.

If you start becoming withdrawn and looking over your shoulder, being careful about what you say, that’s being paranoid. This is an open, accessible team. That’s been my trademark for years.

A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.

What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.

It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man...

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn’t want your family to read. You wouldn’t tell lies to your own wife. Don’t tell them to mine.

With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.

No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks.

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

I mean that what makes me a professional, but the market itself has been fabulous during this whole period and I’ve got to give the market credit before I give myself credit.

It’s actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn’t losing very much money, it wasn’t making very much money, but it was growing.

The other Processors sold inferior corn in the consumer package because many consumer buyers were only interested in a good price.

We’re in this period where we’re getting good data rates. I would say we’re getting data rates that are like the data rates we got when we launched RealAudio in 1995.

Pitching is a priority.

You know, you go home and you try on a new mascara, and I guess a male CEO can’t do that.

The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment.

I did not feel I had to carry a gun. However, I knew how to shoot a gun very proficiently. As a boy, I used to play cowboys and Indians all the time.

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It’s the only really dishonest kind of advertising that’s left. It’s totally dishonest.

What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

Broke is a Hollywood term!

An illustration I use to get people to understand it is this: I’ll ask major corporate audiences: Why don’t you just take all your traditional beliefs about organizations, and apply them to the neurons in...

I live more than anything else to produce the Games.

We’ve got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

The danger that we have right now are people who get the same information as I do and, therefore, think they’ll reach the same conclusions that haven’t traded as long, don’t have bear claws up...

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.

Although it’s easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket… it’s part-ownership of a business.

Our business practices are no different than those of our competitors, but we are bigger, and thus more visible, so we get more flack.

There is no For Sale sign on our door.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the ”four P’s” — pay, perks, power and prestige — rather than making profits for shareholders.

Among other things, advertisers know that humor can make their product interesting, communicate their message, and get and hold our attention.

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.

A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.

I did not feel ‘evil’ when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support,...

In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don’t want to be a tennis player.

Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation’s seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of...

Wherever modern translations of marked excellence were already in existence efforts were made to secure them for the Library, but in a number of instances copyright could not be obtained.

What I’m saying is that there are bargains right now, there are stocks right now that if you’re shrewd enough, you will be able to buy them at the opening today and I you’ll make...

It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.

Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the...

That got us started on revenue sharing, and we couldn’t have done it without all the teams.

Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.

It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially – like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.