If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.

But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.

There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.

I see city finances within the context of an economic strategy... We are going to solve our financial problems by growing the economy, and I have rejected some corners that have called for a slash-and-burn approach, and I've rejected others who have called for raising taxes and leaving government as is.

I like the intimacy of independent films and I like the idea that people aren't being paid necessarily as much money as some one on a studio film.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

Aging bodies are fiscal black holes into which you can pour endless amounts of money.