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“My problem with unions is they breed mediocrity.”
“When you're an investor, you can look at the quantitative and qualitative elements of an investment, but there's a third aspect: What you feel in your gut.”
“In his first term, President Barack Obama played a cautious manager navigating the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and cleaning up the messes left by President George W. Bush in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
“If I were the president of the United States, I would make unions illegal. They no longer serve a functional purpose in democracy, in my view.”
“Nobody forces you to work at Wal-Mart. Start your own business! Sell something to Wal-Mart!”
“If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.”
“I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't deal with it, too bad.”
“There are a lot of impractical things about owning a Porsche. But they're all offset by the driving experience. It really is unique. Lamborghinis and Ferraris come close. And they are more powerful, but they don't handle like a Porsche.”
“When you bring an idea that has no merit to me, and you ask me to comment on it, I'm going to tell you it has no merit.”
“Don't call me, I'll call you... I'm out.”
“For whatever reason somebody can be convinced to buy a PC, it opens up a whole new market for all of us in the software business.”
“Don't cry about money, it never cries for you.”
“Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my money into battle unprepared and undefended. I send it to conquer and take currency prisoner and bring it back to me.”
“When I turned 50, something clicked in my head and I said, 'I'm not going to live to 100. I'm half-cooked already.' I set the family down and I said, 'Listen everybody, we're now entering the decade of Daddy. We're going to start doing things that I want to do.'”
“All we do is bring the debate from both sides, and let you as a viewer decide where you want to end up on the issue. That's very important. That's exactly what happens in 'Redemption Inc.'”
“When you come to 'Shark Tank,' the only person you should listen to is me, because you know you're getting the truth. I'll decide if it's worth it, and after I'm finished, the rest of the people can look into it.”
“I like gold because it is a stabilizer; it is an insurance policy.”
“Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.”
“Once in a while, I see my fellow TV investors praise a business just because they like the entrepreneur behind it. That kind of thinking might make you feel warm and fuzzy inside - but let's get back to reality.”
“I'm not trying to make friends, I'm just trying to make money.”