So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

I was fortunate to get a scholarship when I went to Lehigh University and Princeton. They were both wonderful schools. Somebody was kind enough to spend their money to educate people that they would never get to know. That's what I think philanthropy is about.

Your legacy should be that you made it better than it was when you got it.

I guess I invented extended warranties, because that's all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days.

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.

What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it.

Are we going to be a services power? The double-cheeseburger-hold-the-mayo kings of the world?