A gun in the hand is worth any number being tested.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

The richest person in the world - in fact. All the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library. You can measure the awareness, the breadth and the wisdom of a civilization, a nation, a people by the priority given to preserving these repositories of all that we are, all that we were, or will be.

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

What about the poor salesman who is calling into the office from the corner saloon instead of the home sickbed he claims he is in?

A man can't do more than he can - but he can at least do that much.