Quote Tag

I have always focused on the bottom line.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of modernity and creativity in our organization. It’s a symbol.

A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn’t last.

When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn’t allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in – if they could, they would do so.

You cannot make a giant space company in your dorm room. Not today. And the reason is that the heavy lifting infrastructure isn’t in place.

Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don’t want my love of the game to involve business.

The golf facet of my life doesn’t go with the rest of my life, which is a rough-and-tumble life. I work in real estate development, which is the toughest business, and I do it in the toughest city. I deal with ruthless people.

I want to be a fair trader. I want to be a firm and fair trader.