money Quotes

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.

Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

If your payloads cost hundreds of millions of dollars, they actually cost more than the launch. It puts a lot of pressure on the launch vehicle not to change, to be very stable. Reliability becomes much more important than the cost. It's hard to get off of that equilibrium.

The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.

I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.

Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That's why there's the old saw: location, location, location.