What's the best way to get a good spouse? The best single way is to deserve a good spouse because a good spouse is by definition not nuts.

A foreign correspondent, after talking to me for a while, once said: "You don't seem smart enough to be so good at what you're doing. Do you have an explanation?"

It would be easier to screw up American Express than Coke or Gillette, but it's an immensely strong business.

If mutual fund directors are independent, then I'm the lead character in the Bolshoi Ballet.

What's the best way to get a good spouse? The best single way is to deserve a good spouse because a good spouse is by definition not nuts.

An idea or a fact is not worth more merely because it's more available to you.

Since those don’t hit financial reports, the opportunities you had but didn’t accept, most people don’t bother thinking about them very much. At least that is a mistake we don’t make. We rub our own noses in our mistakes in blowing opportunities, as we just did.