"I would like to host a show, something like travel or cooking or something like that, something I'm really interested in, and so I'm pitching a couple television shows."

“I buy stocks when they are battered. I am strict with my discipline. I always buy stocks with low price-earnings ratios, low price-to-book value ratios and higher-than-average yield. Academic studies have shown that a strategy of buying out-of-favor stocks with low P/E, price-to-book and price-to-cash flow ratios outperforms the market pretty consistently over long periods of time.”

Source : "Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Classic Edition". Book by David Dreman, May 18, 1998.

“You can't succeed coming to the potluck with only a fork.”

“People who have left the group talk about how a religious inspiration took them to ISIS. It was their feeling of being marginalized as Muslims in the society where they were living, and then buying into the promise of a caliphate and of a Muslim land that is governed as in the time of the prophet. I have yet to meet anybody, or speak to anybody, who was not religiously motivated at some level.”

“I think this is the first time I've altered a book based on what you guys told me. So it's an occasion! Soon I'll be putting up polls to choose between plots, and then it's a short stop to accepting anonymous contributions and stapling them together while I sip margaritas on the deck of a Pacific cruise ship.”

Source : "Retrospective #6: Reviewing the Future". Personal blog, maxbarry.com. August 24, 2005.

“All things must end, and they do! You're only stuck in a place if you choose to stay stuck there.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“Once the doors close there can be no lie or deception and the lights will tell all!”

“I've had pretty good success with Stan (Musial) by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third.”

“When you give something, just for the joy of creating, it always comes back on a much larger scale.”