Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)
Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better.
Trends carry on forever, until they stop. I want to be around after things come to a standstill. As a result, I tend to be pretty conservative.
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
We are at the point where game designers have become celebrities due to the size of the market they serve.
Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one.
Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.
But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.
You need to be ahead of the game just enough so that you can have what people want in the shops when they want it.
Each of our collections is like a movie. We write the script, and this Sicilian woman who has traveled around the world plays the lead role.
There are people who believe that a Dolce & Gabbana T-shirt is more stylish than a supermarket one, and there are people who believe the opposite. There is room for everyone.
You forget about it whether it was 15-2 or 3-2. It's still a loss. It doesn't matter what the score was if we win tomorrow.
The big difference for me is that, as I get older, I find it's a lot easier to stay in shape than it is to get back in shape.
I'm very, very competitive. If my grandmother asks to race me down the street, I'm going to try to beat her. And I'll probably enjoy it!
I try to stay as private as possible; I know that's difficult, especially playing here in New York, but I make an attempt at it.
I've never been an actor on Broadway, but it feels like you're on a stage when you play at Yankee Stadium. And that's the feeling I've always had.
Universities have come to realize that online is not a fad. The question is not whether to engage in this area but how to do it.
I think to balance the budget, probably every federal department has to take cuts in my opinion.
There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have the privilege of getting to invent things that billions of people use.
Where I feel the most productive and engaged is when I'm buried in code, buried in some project, tweaking some designs. I'm certainly introverted.
