Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it 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.

Greenmail, in case you're wondering, is when a company pays a raider a premium for his holdings-if he'll go away. What I think it really is is blackmail in a pin-striped suit.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

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.

When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation...they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.