Too few accomplish twice as much as too many.

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?

To measure the man, measure his heart.

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.

Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.