"I was the worst game show host that ever lived, and I knew it."

“Italian culture is so deeply soaked in an appreciation of the good things in life.”

“The key is to do your own work.”

Source : "15 Brilliant Insights From Hedge Fund Superstar Kyle Bass" by Julia La Roche, www.businessinsider.com. December 05, 2011.

“I think it's good that I had some experience of the real world before I became successful. You know, having to get up in the morning and going to work in construction.”

Source : "Tom Jones: He's actually quite unusual" by Johnny Davis, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2010.

“It is customary for columnists to complain about the excesses of Premiership footballers, whenever - as happens regularly - there is an incident involving some combination of sex, drugs, drink, violence and the constabulary. But modern footballers have a lot of both money and disposable time, a combination that has proved a recipe for personal disaster throughout history. And these incidents take place generally round night clubs rather than football clubs. The average Premiership player who turned up for work drunk would have a career-expectancy measurable in minutes.”

“People are so cheap. Everyone wants quality, no one wants to pay for it. Here's the suburban dream-- to hire great workers who are such meek morons that they don't have the guts to ask for a living wage.”

“But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.”

“As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happening around me. I always felt a solidarity with those who are desperate and confused and misused and are seeking a way out of it.”

“Money is always there but the pockets change.”