They are a special breed-like normal accountants, but without the soppy sentimentality. These are the oncologists of market capitalism.
Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.
There is no such thing as high returns without risk.
I enjoy the independence of single-handling a boat. I like controlling the elements, making the wind and the waves and the water work for me.
It would hurt. But we'll dust ourselves off and we'll come back.
I want to grow. I don't want to get stuck doing the same thing over and over and think I'm the best at it.
We’ve got customers. We’ve got suppliers. We’ve got employees. We’ve got unions. We’ve got communities. We’ve got all of these things that go into making up whether a business succeeds or fails.
And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.
Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy. ' They think they're the right guy.
Acting is just a job at the end of the day, and its a very strange one.
Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.