I hope a start at getting some oil out of the enormous Alaska field isn't indefinitely mired in a bureaucratic morass as a result of our national concern for the ecology. This concern must not be so misguided, misdirected, misused that it serves to stop economic growth, to bankrupt companies, to stifle new development, new jobs, new horizons. In fighting new pollution and stemming present pollution, exciting, sometimes costly means and methods exist and others will evolve. But blanket legislative naysaying to expanding power and energy sources is stupid, self-defeating.

I don't waste too much time philosophizing about wealth, I just recommend it to everyone.

Listening to advice often accomplishes far more than heeding it.

Since we had nothing to do with our arrival and usually are not consulted about our departure, what makes so many of us think we're entitled to so much while we're here?

At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one.

A big cigar in a young face requires the best of both.

I was loaded with sheer ability, spelled i-n-h-e-r-i-t-a-n-c-e.