"It's kind of a crazy thing to decide that you're going to be worth tens and tens and tens of millions of dollars and set out to do that. It doesn't suit everybody."
"I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution."
"You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care, you've won. I absolutely promise you, in every serious negotiation, the man or woman who doesn't care is going to win."
"You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them."
"This modern mania for interfering in other's lives, usually under the guise of health and safety concerns, is highly irritating and counterproductive. Down with the nanny state."
"I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care."
"With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was."
"Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how can you not have respect for a guy who's been down on the floor and just keeps coming back? Nothing will keep Donald Trump down until they drive a wooden stake in his heart and a silver bullet in his brain."
"Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you guys? Have you got any idea? They're just rocking with laughter night and day."
"I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure."
"Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man."
"'The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business in America, in the arts and even more especially in the media."
"You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry."
"The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over."
"Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake."
"I love the business of business; I love the risk raking."
"Native trees are so important to our ecosystem."
"Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care."
"It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money."
"There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting."
"I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor."
"I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry."
"I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry."
"You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money."
"I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive."
