There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

Artificial inflation of stocks must be considered a crime as serious as counterfeiting, which it closely resembles.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.

A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.