I at least felt the obligation to speak clearly [in 'The Last Tycoon']. This is pre-Brando and pre-James Dean. Nobody mumbled back… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
I just have this thing inside me that wants to eat and conquer. Maybe it's egotistical, but I have it in me.… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's actually a character choice for a movie I've been filming in South Korea called Okja. My director had this idea of… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
The one thing all famous authors, world class athletes, business tycoons, singers, actors, and celebrated achievers in any field have in common… — Mike Dooley Copy Share Image
It would be a serious mistake to replace a seasoned statesman with a tempermental tycoon who has no respect for the constitution. — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
It's very much related to the American tycoon. To William Randolph Hearst, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, that whole stratum of American acquisitive evil. Monopolistic,… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
If you owe fifty dollars you're a piker; if you owe fifty thousand dollars you're a businessman; if you owe fifty million… — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
Resurrecting American democracy is vital to averting climate catastrophe. We must first repeal the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, which has flooded… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Being an entrepreneur doesn't make you a rich tycoon and being an innovator doesn't mean that you're successful. It just means that… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Who wants to be reputable? That's for golfers and tycoons with a sleazy past. — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
There are only three requirements for success. First, decide exactly what it is you want in life. Second, determine the price that… — H. L. Hunt Copy Share Image
I think those who invest in mutual funds want someone else to do the thinking for them. But the fact that they… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
After I finished the Tycoons - on post-Civil War development - I realized how much I didn't know about the first half… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
