If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead -- if you strike oil.

...Americans...automatically equate dissension with disloyalty. They view any criticism of our existing social, economic, and political forms, as sedition and subversion. ...(" The growing reluctance of Americans to criticize, and their increasing tendency to condemn those who, in ever dwindling numbers, will still voice dissent") is disturbing, deplorable, and truly dangerous.

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.

Age doesn't matter, unless you are cheese.

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

I have no complex about wealth. I have worked very hard for my money; producing things people need.

Build wealth as a by product of your business success. If wealth is your only objective in business, you will probably fail.