I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Nothing comes merely by thinking about it.

Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.

I want to see talent and companies and money and entrepreneurs moving to Chicago.

The kind of money that show business will pay you, unless you need to have shoes made of diamonds, you can actually put it in the bank and sort of be okay.