No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less

What is common sense? That which attracts the least opposition that which brings most agreeable and worthy results.

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

In thousands of years there has been no advance in public morals, in philosophy, in religion or in politics, but the advance in business has been the greatest miracle the world has ever known.

Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.

The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.