Business Tycoon Quotes

David Geffen was a Bruce Wayne to me. He was extraordinary, but at the same time, his talents were something that I could dream of and could fathom.

Rupert Murdoch is a good friend of mine.

There was a guy by the name of Charles Schwab: actually, Charles M. Schwab. I read a lot about him, and I always hoped I was related, but I wasn't. He was a steel magnate. He worked for J.P. Morgan; then he started Bethlehem Steel. But he had no children, unfortunately, and it turned out I wasn't a relative.

Remarks such as 'great Australian', 'larger than life' are sometimes used where they are not appropriate. But in the case of Kerry Packer both of those descriptions are entirely appropriate. He was a great Australian, he was a larger than life character and in so many ways he left his mark on the Australian community over a very long career in business, particularly in the media and also that other great passion of his, Australian sport

For more than two decades, Barry Diller has been among the most respected - and feared - figures in the entertainment industry.

Ross Perot. I could have had a ball with him.

For years, Warner Bros. was trying to get me to make a movie about Howard Hughes.

Berlusconi knows about everything. I am lucky to have known him.

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

Vince McMahon is an intimidating individual because of the amount of respect he commands because of what he's done for entertainment, turning the business into a billion dollar success story. He rarely sleeps. He's a workaholic. He's passionate. He loves what he does.

He's a guy who's gonna die in that chair, putting together some big deal. I don't think Donald Trump will ever stop. He truly loves what he's doing.

Building companies involves creating great wealth. If that means I am an oligarch, OK, it's fine. But if being an oligarch is about buying football clubs, it is not for me.

A man does not automatically become a public figure because he happens to build an empire out of chicken fat.

Conrad Black is a picture of a man hugely enjoying himself.

I sometimes feel I have met everyone he ever met, but I never met him. I am afraid to say I have always been - the word I would have to use is - amused by Howard Hughes.

I'm not a mogul; I'm a tycoon.

Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.

Vijay Mallya is a star, not an actor. Anybody who lives a lifestyle of that kind, is a star.