The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.
I don't think it's blowing my own horn to say the show is not as good. There was chemistry there that took years and years to build and now that's gone. The commentary is lacking.
I see my boys about 10 days every month. And, yes, they are the most important people in my life.
But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.
I think when it comes to decisions, I try not to be emotional. To drown out the noise and look at the important facts.
The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.
I've treated the waistcoat as if it were a corset, so that it becomes the first layer in the process of putting clothes on the body. There is constant motion between layering and revealing.
I have never been a social lion; I was misidentified as one because I have a very attractive second wife.
Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events.
Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They're just reminders to stay... calm.
I don't like to spend time in endless meetings talking about stuff that isn't going to get anything done. I have meetings, but they're short, prompt and to the point.
Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.
Private equity does pay very well, and my counterparts, guys that I grew up with who are still working at a number of firms, all make a lot of money.
The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team.
In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today.
In many cases, jobs that used to be done by people are going to be able to be done through automation. I don't have an answer to that. That's one of the more perplexing problems of society.
In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That's quite clear.
I'm the luckiest guy in the world, and I am going to give away every penny before I die.
If everybody who was in the Forbes 400 said they were going to create 10,000 jobs, by my mathematics, that would be 4 million jobs.
You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.
If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.
