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.

A man can fail, but he isn't a failure until he blames someone else.

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort.

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.

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