The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might and force of habit. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him-and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.

A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you are a business failure.

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Money is like manure, you don't have to spread it around, you can just sell it to Potash Corp as fertilizer.

Some of our newspapers and magazines are more concerned with the welfare of their advertisers than they are with the dissemination of news and the discussion of matters of lasting importance. ...Radio, television, motion pictures, popular books - all contribute...to...the stifling of dissent on all but the most banal levels. ...a renunciation of the most basic and precious of democratic principles.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.