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.

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

Bad times are indelible. They stay with you forever.

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

My father used to say, 'You can spend a lot of time making money. The tough time comes when you have to give it away properly.' How to give something back, that's the tough part in life.

People want economy, and they'll pay any price to get it.