How to get taken: Spend most of your time making sure you're not.

Where you're from only matters in relation to where you are.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

SM is an abbreviation of both stock market and sadomasochism-- and there are those who think they are one and the same.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

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?

What advertising dum-dum signed up Ilie Nastase to sell a resort?! Who'd want to go where he's at?