I have to take time occasionally to get away from the pressures of this business. If I don't, I think I would get stale, and that would show in my music.
One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today.
This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'll take it.
A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.
To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.
Being tiny has been difficult for me in a business that regarded physicality as the most important part of your life.
My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.
Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.
The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.
I've now returned to the business again because I finally realised that I really enjoy the creative process.