If people tell you what you really don't want to hear what's unpleasant-there's an almost automatic reaction of antipathy. You have to train yourself out of it.

I'd rather throw a viper down my shirt front than hire a compensation consultant.

If it happens every year like clockwork, what's so extraordinary about it?

The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.

Intense interest in any subject is indispensable if you're really going to excel in it.

In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time - none ... ZERO.

If the technology hadn't changed, they [newspapers] would still be great businesses. Network TV [in its heyday], anyone could run and do well. If Tom Murphy as running it, you'd do very well, but even your idiot nephew could do well. Fortunately, carbide cutting tools [such as those made by Iscar] don't have these types of substitutes.