When it gets into these spikes, with shortages and uproar and so forth, people go bananas, but that's capitalism.

Step by step you get ahead, but rarely in fast spurts.

Cicero's words also increased my personal satisfaction by supporting my long-standing rejection of a conventional point of view.

After nearly making a terrible mistake not buying See's, we've made this mistake many times. We are apparently slow learners. These opportunity costs don't show up on financial statements, but have cost us many billions.

I think gold is a great thing to sew onto your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but civilized people don't buy gold, they invest in productive businesses.

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

Most people are too fretful, they worry to much. Success means being very patient, but aggressive when it's time.