One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

The cement in our whole democracy today is the worker who makes $ 15 an hour. He's the guy who will buy a house and a car and a refrigerator. He's the oil in the engine.

Business, after all, is nothing more than a bunch of human relationships.

Don’t just stand there; make something happen.

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.

A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.

I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.