The #1 guideline to success is you must be in business for yourself. When you work for someone else, you sell your time at wholesale to your employer, who then re-sells it at retail to the customer.

In business, as in politics, it is never easy to go against the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority. The businessman who moves counter to the tide of prevailing opinion must expect to be obstructed, derided and damned.

Some people find oil. Others don't.

I would rather receive one percent of the income of 100 men, than 100% of the income of one man.

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

In my opinion, an individual without any love of the arts cannot be considered completely civilized.

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