My mother was given to a typical question: "We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?" But my wife's typical question was "We have always done this. Why don't we do it another way or, better still, why not do something else?"

A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.

Probably the greatest single obstacle to the progress and happiness of the American people lies in the willingness of so many men to invest their time and money in multiplying competitive industries instead of opening up new fields, and putting their money into lines of industry and development that are needed.

My mother was given to a typical question: "We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?" But my wife's typical question was "We have always done this. Why don't we do it another way or, better still, why not do something else?"