"You don't build a reputation on what you're going to do."

"Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services."

"An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous."

"A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large."

"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."

"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them."

"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it."

"The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time."

"The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life."

"A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one."

"I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible."

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."

"We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today."

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

"There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."

"Asking 'who ought to be the boss' is like asking 'who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor."

"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his greatest surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't"

"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own."

"The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability."

"Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service."

"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."

"You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. With it, there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis."

"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."

"The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."

"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward."

"There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can."

"The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence."

"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."

"Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions."

"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!"

"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."

"Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic."

"Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught."

"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

"Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband."

"Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility."

"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling."

"Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence."

"Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."

"Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage."

"History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools."

"Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced."

"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."

"Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent."

"Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her."

"Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of."

"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."

"Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured."

"Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another."

"Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding."