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.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

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.

It's a good thing god doesn't let you look a year or two into the future, or you might be sorely tempted to shoot yourself.

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

If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.