Tycoons
“A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa. ”
—Mark Zuckerberg
Tycoons
“A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa. ”
—Mark Zuckerberg
“I don’t think anybody should write his autobiography until after he’s dead.”
—Samuel Goldwyn
“Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.”
—Steve Jobs
“The only meat I eat is from animals I’ve killed myself.”
—Mark Zuckerberg
“We’ve got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?”
—Lee Iacocca
“Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.”
—Warren Buffet
“Bury your mistakes.”
—Rupert Murdoch
“Part of the beauty of me is that I am very rich.” (speaking on Good Morning America)
“No, I’m not into anal.” (speaking on The Howard Stern Show)
“Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest—and you all know it! Please don’t feel so stupid or insecure, it’s not your fault” (on Twitter)
“Listen, you motherf***ers, we’re going to tax you 25 percent!” (referring to China in 2011)
“Ariana Huffington is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man—he made a good decision.”
“I don’t want to use the word ‘screwed’ but I screwed him.” (on renting land to Muammar Qaddafi, on Fox and Friends, 2011)
—Donald Trump, American tycoon and president
“The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she’s there but nobody wants to talk about her.”
—Ross Perot
“We don’t break the law.”
—Kenneth Lay, CEO of Enron
“We don’t pay taxes. The little people pay taxes.”
“I’m a very firm believer that a liar is a cheat and a thief and a crook. I don’t like liars. I never lie. I always told my own child, ‘If you murder somebody, tell me. I’ll help you hide the body. But don’t you lie to me.’”
“Money enhances a man, yes, as beauty enhances a woman.”
—Leona Helmsley
“Of course I know how to roll a joint.”
“I think that people want to know how to do practical and everyday things like how to get the pomegranate seeds out of a pomegranate.”
“I have a microphone on one ankle and an ankle bracelet on the other, so I’m well balanced today.”
“The last place I would ever want to go is prison.”
“Am I the same girl? Yes, I am...Although I have changed.”
“As with all my new pets, I gently bit each kitten on the face. This is how I let my animals know that I am now their mother.”
“I think you can fairly say I spawned or laid an egg that has turned into a lifestyle industry.”
—Martha Stewart
“She just needs to be quiet. She’s a movie star. If she were confident in her acting, she wouldn’t be trying to be Martha Stewart.”
—Martha Stewart, on Gwyneth Paltrow
“I’ve got a virtually limitless supply of bullsh*t.”
“If people get all the sex they can handle, they’re so happy and content they just sit around and smile. I mean, you never feel aggressive just after you’ve gotten laid, right? Lots of sex for everybody, that’s a solution to the world’s problems.”
“My son is now an ‘entrepreneur.’ That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.”
—Ted Turner
“The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.”
—John D. Rockefeller
“The indictment, in a lot of ways, that was the turning point.”
—Jeffrey Skilling, chairman of Enron
“Most of us don’t invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.”
“In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn’t pay my employees well.”
“Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.”
—Sam Walton, Walmart founder
“Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you.”
“Every man has his price, or a guy like me couldn’t exist.”
“I’m not a paranoid deranged millionaire. Goddamit, I’m a billionaire.”
“We don’t have a monopoly. Anyone who wants to dig a well without a Hughes Bit can always use a pick and shovel.”
“God took away my parents, but I’ve saddled myself with another burden.”
“His ears made him look like a taxicab with both doors open.”
—Howard Hughes
“Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.”
—Max Aitken, Canadian-British business tycoon, politician, newspaper publisher, and writer