You can get too close as a team. You need time away from each other. You change in the same dressing room, you play on the same cricket field, you stay in the same hotel, you travel in the same planes and buses. C'mon - this business of everyone holding hands and being pally is nonsense.
Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!
It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam.
I've had those periods in my career when I was sitting around waiting for a phone call and had an agent who was doing the same thing rather than going out there to shake the bushes looking for a job for me. It's a frustrating game, that's the downside of this business - the rejection.
It's just not possible to be a real partner if you aren't materially participating. I believe even the busiest business owners must drive a carpool, pack a lunch, help with homework, make a breakfast or dinner, and consistently attend school events.
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.
If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Our favorite holding period is forever.
What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.
