Once you have made it, you will understand that any business is limited in the challenges it offers. You will want and need other games to play, so you will look for other ventures to hold your interest.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

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

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'.

There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.

A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you are a business failure.

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