When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.

I'm the one who started redevelopment in South Los Angeles, not Jan Perry. I did it. I love Jan. She's a good person, and she did a wonderful job with what she did downtown, but in L.A., South L.A., I'm the one.

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Small business owners really make America go, ... If it weren't for us supplying people with jobs, America would be in trouble, because there are much more small business owners than there are big business owners. With America coming back, as far as people having more money to spend, that is due to the success of small business owners.

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.