"I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front."― Mel Brooks Topic(s): BusinessMore From Mel Brooks"Humor is just another defense against the universe.""If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.""I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat."More In Business"My mom, who’s been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love."― Rachael Ray"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail."― Napoleon Hill"If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen."― Barack Obama