Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

How to succeed? Try hard enough.

We'd all like to be taken for what we'd like to be.

If you don't watch your figure, you'll have more figure to watch.

Several weeks of summer vacation in the Thirties I spent working at $15 a week in the FORBES office.... I worked in the mail cage, where envelopes were slit and subscription payments extracted. Dad used to come pounding down the office aisle and pause long enough to ask, How much today? Inevitably the answer was inadequate-except once. That day the controller said excitedly, Mr. Forbes, the ledger shows a slight profit this month! ... My father turned to him and said, Young man, I don't give a damn what your books show. Do we have any money in the bank?

It doesn't take much of a rule to measure a mean man.

It's the less bright students who make teachers teach better.