Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice.

Corporations are like countries now, there's a king, there are serfs, there's a court, basically everything but moats. They're feudal societies, and there are good ones and bad ones.

The high point for me in my career was when Sinatra called me his favourite performer in the Fifties. And I've been sold out ever since.

My filing system is messy but orderly.

I instinctively try to protect people from filth.