I have never issued an order since I have been the operating head of the corporation.

Take my assets - but leave me my organization and in five years I'll have it all back.

A car for every purse and purpose.

It is impossible to get the measure of what an individual can accomplish unless the responsibility is given him.

The business of business is business.

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

Work hard. There is no short cut.

It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.

... Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

In any organization men would move up form the bottom to the top. That develops loyalty, ambition and talent, because there is a chance for promotion.

There is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy.

Filter all negative voices. But retain the positive.

I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of you each second.

The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.

Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I'm a successful writer.

True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!

You've gotta learn to love the grind. Because life IS the grind.

To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible.

There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.