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We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.

I don't change. The things around me change.

I was taught when there's somethin' you can change around keep quiet, you got nothin' to complain about.

I'm not looking for a legacy, and you'll never shut up the critics. I've been around 50 years. When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

I think if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what's expected.

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.

I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.

Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.

Sometimes I feel like I'm not only the engine but the caboose. I have to be in the front car and pull forward, and at the same time run around behind and push everybody along with me.

As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.

I feel comfortable around every driver out there and each driver is in charge of their own car, but you feel very secure racing the competition out there.

With all the hybrid stuff and things like that, I think that's a fabulous direction to go with cars in that sense. As someone who grew up around muscle cars, I'll never not be able to not love a muscle car. Not that I don't care about the environment, that's not it. But I adore muscle cars.

I'm calling from my car, I'm sorry, I'm like running around like crazy.

When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them. That month, I drove my stepdad's Thunderbird Super Coupe into Manhattan every day, and I would crank Cypress Hill as I flew around the city, racing the taxis.

I'd rather drive the yellow brick road, you wouldn't happen to know of a rental car place around.

I don't drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.

I'm a car singer, in fact sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and I'll just drive him around and start singin'.

I like to sing around the bonfire, in my car and in the shower.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.

The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim, but it's always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance.

Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.

A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.

As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world.

Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.

As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.