Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.

Increasingly, politics is not about "who gets what, when, how" but about values, each of them considered to be absolute. Politics is about "the right to life"...It is about the environment. It is about gaining equality for groups alleged to be oppressed...None of these issues is economic. All are fundamentally moral.

No financial man will ever understand business because financial people think a company makes money. A company makes shoes, and no financial man understands that. They think money is real. Shoes are real.

The dilemma of modern society: the conflict between the need for capital formation at a high rate and the popular condemnation of interest and dividends as "unearned income" and "capitalist," if not as sinful and wicked.

Adversarial power relationships only work if you never have to see or work with the bastards again.

Never ask who's right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions.