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

There are no safeguards that can protect the emotional investor from himself.

...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.

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

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

Men of means look at making money as a game which they love to play.

My father said, 'You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals'.