In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top.

a few hours with Beethoven are more restful than sleep.

For too many of us ease is far more soul-destroying than trouble.

One must eliminate the traditional and cling to the essential.

You the rich are no whit more attractive or capable than you who were poor and struggling a few years back. But when before you plodded lonely and unappreciated, now the glamour of the motor and the smart apartment surrounds you with a tangible glory. It is amazing how many friends look you up, call you by name, and extol you, who were once a little timid, or indifferent, or utterly neglectful in your time of dire poverty. One has true friends when one is poor and no riches can be greater than that. They are not so obvious when one is rich.

I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.

I am always glad to think that my education was, for the most part, informal, and had not the slightest reference to a future business career. It left me free and untrammeled to approach my business problems without the limiting influence of specific training.