Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

Inside every working anarchy there's an Old Boy Network.

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.

There are two kinds of companies those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there I go to work.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

I think that there is nothing not even crime more opposed to poetry to philosophy ay to life itself than this incessant business.

Hell there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down simply by spending his money somewhere else.

If there is anything that a man can do well I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation hard work and learning from failure.

If there's one thing I really want for my birthday that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve.

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

I'll never forget my 24th birthday when my tooth got punched out. And for a second I was like it would be really hilarious if I sold it on eBay. But I can't that's just too creepy. I don't think I can go there.

We were probably the last people in the country to get a VCR and we didn't have cable. There wasn't any admiration of glamour no 'I want to look like them or have that lifestyle' because everyone in my town had the same lifestyle. So I didn't think 'Ooh a movie star's birthday!' I just thought 'What?'

One I built when I was a kid and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday.

I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party.

I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night and it made me see how much she really meant to me.

I was fired at the pinnacle of my career on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'

Every day every birthday candle I blow out every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well every time my daughter says 'Let's make a wish on a star ' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.

It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time then two years later you'll be like 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?'

I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent and there were 150 people waiting for me all wearing masks of my face.