The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

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

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country

If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.

Great companies are built on great products.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.