Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom.

You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress.

....remember, a billion dollars isn't worth what it used to be.

Each [of my wives] was jealous and resentful of my preoccupation with business. Yet none showed any visible aversion to sharing in the proceeds.

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

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, 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.