“Patent law holds us back, in every which way, shape or form. There is place for it, in physical products, in pharmaceuticals, but in software in particular, there is no place for it.”

“You learn in life that a lot of things are the result of effort, but some things, in terms of scale, are random.”

“We don’t sell wins or losses. The one thing you can’t control in sports is which games you are going to win or which games you are going to lose. But what I could control was the experience the fans have.”

“There is very little knowledge that can’t be obtained through effort.”

“I want the bad news first. I don’t want the ‘Oh, we hade a great week and Billy…’ You know, great, I’m sure Billy had fun. I want to read: ‘God damn it! We lost this sale, and here is why.’”

“One thing we can all control is effort. Put in the time to become an expert in whatever you’re doing. It will give you an advantage because most people don’t do this.”

“I’m always afraid of failing. It’s great motivation to work harder.”

“It’s hard not to fool yourself. Everyone tells you how they are going to be special. But few do the work to get there. Do the work.”

“Creating opportunities means looking where others are not.”

“Life gets easier when you don’t have to worry about the bills.”

“It’s called working your ass off.”

“I’m a big believer that you always reiterate, you always learn, you always realize your business is evolving.”

“When you’ve got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?”

“The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face – it’s for him to retire with a smile on his face.”

“A sure sign of failure for a startup is when someone sends me logo-embroidered polo shirts. If your people are at shows and in public, it’s okay to buy for your own employees, but if you really think people are going to wear your branded polo when they’re out and about, you are mistaken and have no idea how to spend your money.”

“It comes down to finding something you love to do, then just trying to be great at it.”

“I create offbeat advice; I don’t follow it. I rarely take third-party advice on my investments.”

“It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customers’ shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship.”

“If you are ahead of the curve and you can anticipate where things are going … anything is possible.”

“We can talk about republican or democratic approaches to the economy, but until you fix the student loan bubble – and that’s where the real bubble is – and the tuition bubble, we don’t have a chance. All this other stuff is shuffling deck- chairs on the Titanic.”

“I love to compete. Somebody out there is competing against me, and I want to kick your ass. I say it all the time: Business is the ultimate sport.”

“If I can do it, you can do it.” – Mark Cuban

“You always have to know what business you are in. Everybody thought we were in the basketball business. It’s an NBA-team; we are not in the basketball business. We are in the business of creating experiences and memories.”

“When you first start working for me, directly for me, I micromanage until I trust you.”

“Customers want to see that you have other customers.”

“I like being involved in businesses where you are kicking ass.”

You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.

Revenge doesn't stop.

I like going to the gym every day because I'm in physiotherapy every day.

There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.

The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.

It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape.

As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.

It's a Tim sandwich. The meat is fresh, but the bread is moldy.

Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.

At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.

You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.

The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.

Anybody can leap off a building.

I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.

I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.

I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

I always wanted to make movies.

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.

I can't go to war with paparazzi.