Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.

And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business.

At the end of drama school I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics they don't understand the democratic process they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda it is all the more important that the public understand that difference and choose their news sources accordingly.