I've told you before and I'll tell you again. The strong survive and the weak disappear. We do not intend to disappear.

Don't let any man into your cab, your home, or your heart, unless he's a friend of labor.

In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers.

I do to others what they do to me, only worse.

There are simply no public figures today who so challenge the elite business and government establishment and so champion the working class as Jimmy Hoffa did almost daily and with arrogance.

I may have my faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

But to hear Kennedy when he was grandstanding in front of the McClellan Committee you might have thought I was making as much out of the pension fund as the Kennedys made out of selling whiskey.

Hell, I'm not saying I'm an angel, but when it came to dirty tricks I couldn't hold a candle to the Irish Mafia.

In the ten years I was president of the Teamsters, I had raised the membership from eight hundred thousand to more than 2 million and made it the largest single labor union the world.

Rome wasn't built in a day, but man, did they get a break on the labor.

Run from a knife and rush a gun.

Grandparents are extremely rich folks with silver in their hair and gold in their hearts.

Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.

Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future

It seems there are no rich on death row.

Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.

When leaders behave consistently with the expectations of customers, they are doing things inside their organization that deliver value outside.

We encompass all of existence, yet a particle of our awareness is focused in this world, in the moment.

Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.

My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.

Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely