A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty's horse to fly within the year - on the condition that if he didn't succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. "Within a year," the man explained later, "the king may die, or I may die, or the horse may die. Furthermore, in a year, who knows? Maybe the horse will learn to fly." My philosophy is like that man's. I take the long-range view.

Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.

Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.

Never play tips from "insiders." They can't see the forest for the trees.

You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.

You don't have to blow out the other person's light to let your own shine.

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.