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.

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.

In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO.

I learned that monthly payments are the cornerstone of everything in the automobile business.

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.