To build wealth today, you must be in your own business.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

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.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

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.

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