—Griselda Blanco, aka the Black Widow
Blunt Business
Tycoons
“A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa. ”
—Mark Zuckerberg
“I don’t think anybody should write his autobiography until after he’s dead.”
—Samuel Goldwyn
“Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.”
—Steve Jobs
“The only meat I eat is from animals I’ve killed myself.”
—Mark Zuckerberg
“We’ve got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?”
—Lee Iacocca
“Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.”
—Warren Buffet
“Bury your mistakes.”
—Rupert Murdoch
“Part of the beauty of me is that I am very rich.” (speaking on Good Morning America)
“No, I’m not into anal.” (speaking on The Howard Stern Show)
“Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest—and you all know it! Please don’t feel so stupid or insecure, it’s not your fault” (on Twitter)
“Listen, you motherf***ers, we’re going to tax you 25 percent!” (referring to China in 2011)
“Ariana Huffington is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man—he made a good decision.”
“I don’t want to use the word ‘screwed’ but I screwed him.” (on renting land to Muammar Qaddafi, on Fox and Friends, 2011)
—Donald Trump, American tycoon and president
“The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she’s there but nobody wants to talk about her.”
—Ross Perot
“We don’t break the law.”
—Kenneth Lay, CEO of Enron
“We don’t pay taxes. The little people pay taxes.”
“I’m a very firm believer that a liar is a cheat and a thief and a crook. I don’t like liars. I never lie. I always told my own child, ‘If you murder somebody, tell me. I’ll help you hide the body. But don’t you lie to me.’”
“Money enhances a man, yes, as beauty enhances a woman.”
—Leona Helmsley
“Of course I know how to roll a joint.”
“I think that people want to know how to do practical and everyday things like how to get the pomegranate seeds out of a pomegranate.”
“I have a microphone on one ankle and an ankle bracelet on the other, so I’m well balanced today.”
“The last place I would ever want to go is prison.”
“Am I the same girl? Yes, I am...Although I have changed.”
“As with all my new pets, I gently bit each kitten on the face. This is how I let my animals know that I am now their mother.”
“I think you can fairly say I spawned or laid an egg that has turned into a lifestyle industry.”
—Martha Stewart
“She just needs to be quiet. She’s a movie star. If she were confident in her acting, she wouldn’t be trying to be Martha Stewart.”
—Martha Stewart, on Gwyneth Paltrow
“I’ve got a virtually limitless supply of bullsh*t.”
“If people get all the sex they can handle, they’re so happy and content they just sit around and smile. I mean, you never feel aggressive just after you’ve gotten laid, right? Lots of sex for everybody, that’s a solution to the world’s problems.”
“My son is now an ‘entrepreneur.’ That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.”
—Ted Turner
“The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.”
—John D. Rockefeller
“The indictment, in a lot of ways, that was the turning point.”
—Jeffrey Skilling, chairman of Enron
“Most of us don’t invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.”
“In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn’t pay my employees well.”
“Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.”
—Sam Walton, Walmart founder
“Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you.”
“Every man has his price, or a guy like me couldn’t exist.”
“I’m not a paranoid deranged millionaire. Goddamit, I’m a billionaire.”
“We don’t have a monopoly. Anyone who wants to dig a well without a Hughes Bit can always use a pick and shovel.”
“God took away my parents, but I’ve saddled myself with another burden.”
“His ears made him look like a taxicab with both doors open.”
—Howard Hughes
“Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.”
—Max Aitken, Canadian-British business tycoon, politician, newspaper publisher, and writer
INDEX
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Abdul, Paula
Agassi, Andre
Aitken, Max
Aladdin, quote from
Ali, Muhammad
Alice in Wonderland, quote from
Allen, Jared
Allen, Woody
All in the Family,
quote from
American Horror
Story
Amin Dada, Idi
Archer, quotes from
Archie Bunker’s Place, quotes from
Armstrong, Louis
Asimov, Isaac
Assad, Bashar al-, quote about
Astor, Lady
Atkins, Chet
Atkinson, Ron
B
Bad Santa, quote from
Bachelor, The, quote from
Balotelli, Mario
Banks, Tony
Barkley, Charles
Barry, Marion
Barrymore, Michael
Bean, Billy, quote about
Beck, Jeff
Beckham, Davidquote about
Beecham, Thomas
Beethoven, Ludwig
van
Bergman, Ingrid, quote about
Berlioz, Hector
Bernier, Jonathan
Berra, Yogi
Best, George
Biden, Joe
Bieber, Justin quote about
Bier, August KarlGustav
Big Bang Theory, The, quotes from
Big Lebowski, The, quote from
bin Laden, Osama quote about
Black, Lewis
Blanco, Griselda
Bob’s Burgers, quotes from
Bolin, Wesley
Bolt, Usain
Bonaparte, Na-poléon
Boondocks, The, quotes from
Boxer, Barbara
Bradshaw, Terry
Brown, Chris quote about
Bryant, Kobe
Buckland, William
Buffet, Warren
Bundy, Ted
Busch, Kurt
Bush, Barbara
Bush, George H. W. quote about
Bush, George W.
Bynes, Amanda
Byron, Lord
C
Cage, Nicholas
Cameron, Mike
Campbell
, Naomi
Canseco, Jose
Cantona, Eric
Capone, Al
Caray, Harry
Carey, Mariah
Carlin, George
Carlito’s Way, quotefrom
Carson, Ben
Carter, Jimmy
Castro, Fidel, quote about
Chaney, Darrel
Charmed, quote from
Cheney, Dick
Chesterton, G. K.
Chikatilo, Andrei
Churchill, Winston quote about
Clancy, Tom
Clarett, Maurice
Clinton, Bill quotes about
Clinton, Hillary quote about
Colbert, Stephen
Coleman, Jerry
Collins, Doug
Con Air, quote from
Connery, Sean
Connors, Jimmy
Conway, Kellyanne
Cooper, Alice
Copland, Aaron
Costello, Frank
Coughlin, Charles E.
Cowher, Bill
Craft, Randy
Cravins, Don
Crawford, Joan quotes about
Crick, Francis
Crowley, Aleister
Cruise, Tom
D
Daffy Duck
Dahmer, Jeffrey
Daulton, Darren
Davis, Betty, quotes about
Davis, Monique
Dawkins, Richard
Dawson, Andre
Deadpool, quotes from
Dean, Dizzy
DeGette, Diana
Delgado, José
Deloria, Vine, Jr.
Devil Wears Prada, The, quote from
Diana, Princess, quote about
Dicks, Terry, quote about
Dillinger, John
Dinkins, David
Dirksen, Everett
Disney, Walt
Dole, Bob
Donnelly, Rich
Douglas, Sherman
Drew, Weldon
Drew Carey Show, The, quote from
Dukakis, Michael, quote about
Duncan, Tim, quoteabout
Dunham, Lena
Duva, Lou
Dykstra, Lenny
E
Einstein, Alfred, quote about
Eisenhower, Dwight
Elizabeth, Queen, quote about
Ellington, Duke
Epicurus
Escobar, Pablo
Everett, Carl
F
Family Guy, quotes from
Farage, Nigel
50 Cent
Fight Club, quote from
Fiorina, Carly, quote about
Fish, Albert
Fish Called Wanda, A, quote from
Ford, Gerald
Foreman, George, quote about
Frazier, Joe, quote about
Fuentes, Tito
Full Metal Jacket, quote from
G
Gambino, Carlo
Game of Thrones,
quotes from
Gandhi, Robin
Gangs of New York, quote from
Garavito, Luis
Garfield
Gein, Ed
Genghis Khan
Gerulaitis, Vitas
Giancana, Salvatore “Mooney Sam,”
Gibson, Mel
Gielgud, John
Gingrich, Newt
Girls, quote from
Gobel, George
Goldwyn, Samuel
Golota, Andrew
Goncourt, Edmond de
Gordon, Drew
Gore, Al
Gosselin, Jon
Graham, Chuck, quote about
Grande, Ariana
Gravano, Salvatore “Sammy the Bull,”
Graziano, Rocky
Grease: Live, quote from
Guillen, Ozzie
Gullit, Ruud
Gumbel, Bryant
Guzman, Joaquin “El Chapo,”
H
Hagel, Chuck
Haley, Nikki, quote about
Halliwell, Geri “Ginger Spice,”
Hare, Augustus
Harlow, Jean
Harpootlian, Dick
Harris, Sam
Harrison, George
Heat, The, quote
from
Helmsley, Leona
Henderson, Rickey
Hendrix, Jimi quote about
Hepburn, Audrey, quote about
Hilton, Paris
Hinckley, John W., Jr.,
Hitchon, Sophie
Hitler, Adolf quote about
Holtz, Lou
House of Cards, quote from
How I Met You Mother, quote from
How to Get Away with Murder, quote from
Hubbard, L. Ron
Huffington, Ariana, quote about
Hughes, Howard
Hull, Brett
Hurley, Elizabeth
I
Iacocca, Lee
Ibrahimovic, Zlatan
Incaviglia, Pete
Incredibles, The, quote from
J
Jackson, Michael, quote about
Jacoby, Joe, quote about
James, Jerome
Jean, Olivier
Jefferson, Thomas
Jeffersons, The, quote from
Jenner, Kendall
Jessie J
Jobs, Steve
Johansson, Scarlett, quote about
John, Elton, quote about
Johnson, Dakota
Johnson, Magic
Jones, Caldwell
Jones, Cardale
Jordan, Michael
Juno, quote from
K
Kardashian, Khloe
Kardashian, Kim quote about
Keillor, Garrison
Kelly, R.
Kerr, Brian
Khomeini, Ayatol- lah
King, Billie Jean
King, Don
King, Stephen
King of the Hill, quotes from
Knight, Bob
Koch, Edward
Kruk, John quote about
Kuklinski, Richard “Iceman,”
L
Lady Gaga
Lamm, Dick
Lay, Kenneth,
LeBlanc, Jacques
Lennox, Annie
Lennon, John, quote about
Leno, Jay
Le Pen, Jean-Marie
Levant, Oscar
Levine, Adam
Levitt, Chuck
Lewis, Ray, quote about
Lincoln, Abraham, quote about
Lochte, Ryan
Lombardi, Vince
Lopez, Pedro Alonso
Luther, Martin
M
Mad Men, quote from
Madonna
Malone, Karl
Mandela, Nelson,
quote about
Mann, Leslie
Manson, Charles
Manson, Marilyn
Maradona, Diego
Married with Chil-
dren, quote from
Martin, Steve
Massa, Eric
Masters of Sex, quote from
McCarver, Tim
McCorvey, Tim
McCovey, Willie, quote about
McEnroe, John
McGrath, Tracy
McGraw, “Tug,”
Melville, Herman Mendenhall,
Rashard
Menzel, Idina, quote about
Mercury, Freddie
Meulens, Hensley
Meyer, Ron
Millen, Matt
Miller, Brad
Mindy Project, The, quote from
Minter, Alan
Misery, quote from
Mob Wives, quotefrom
Monroe, Marilyn quotes about
Montgomery, Wes
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, quote from
Moon, Keith
Morrison, Jim
Moss, Randy
Mourinho, José
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Murdoch, Rupert
Murphy, Daniel
Mussolini, Benito
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Navratilova, Mar-tina
Nietzsche, Friedrich
9 to 5, quote from
Nixon, Richard
Norman, Greg
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Obama, Barack quotes about
Obama, Michelle
Ocho Cinco, Chad
O’Connor, Sinéad
O’Malley, Martin
O’Neal, Shaquille
Orange Is the New Black, quotes from
Orta, Jorge, quote about
Osbourne, Kelly
Osbourne, Ozzy
Osinski, Dan
P
Palin, Sarah
Palmer, Arnold
Paltrow, Gwyneth quote about
Parker, Dorothy
Parsons, Jack
Peanuts, quote from
Perino, Dana
Perot, Ross
Perry, Gaylord quote about
Peterson, Bill
Phelps, Fred
Phillips, Bum
Pippen, Scottie,
Pirsig, Robert M.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles, quote from
Polk, Torren
Poor, Charles Lane
Powerpuff Girls, The, quotes from
Poynter, Dan
Presley, Elvis
Pryor, Richard
Putin, Vladimir
Q
Qaddafi, Muammar, quote about
Quayle, Dan
R
Rachmaninov, Sergei
Ray, Rachael
Reagan, Ronald quotes about
Redford, Robert, quote about
Reid, Tara
Reznor, Trent
Rice, Jerry
Richards, Keith
Rick and Morty, quotes from
Rihanna, quote about
Rivers, Joan
Robertson, Pat
Robson, Bobby
Rock, Chris
Rockefeller, John D.
Rocker, John
Rodman, Dennis
Rodriguez, Alex
Roenick, Jeremy
Rogan, Seth
Rogers, George
Rose, Axl