A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

A friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship.

[But longtime friend and competitor Robert Johnson, who founded BET, says,] To me, his achievements would rival those of any business person in America, ... He had charisma, tenacity and passion to convince people that there was such a thing as a black consumer market.

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.