When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.

To solve big problems you have to be willing to do unpopular things.

Every little kid wants to grow up to be a cowboy, and I did.

Why is our free-enterprise system so strong?- Not because it stands still, frozen in the past, but because it has always adapted to changing realities

Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.

No matter how I'm doing financially, the Depression has never disappeared from my consciousness. To this day, I hate waste. When neckties went from narrow to wide, I kept all my old ones until the style went back to narrow.