It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people.

I find it interesting that many of the people who want to restrict fossil fuels live in well-developed countries where abundant and affordable energy is readily available.

There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil fuels.

Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.

The market system requires that people be committed and willing to work hard. Inherent with that is what I call a merit system, which I think gives people the greatest opportunity.

The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system.

We should seek a system that provides outlets for those skills and talents so that everyone can find a way to work and serve in a manner that best suits the strengths of each individual.

It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined.

Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.

In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.

I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they should be deprived of a critical source of energy.

The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.

Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking.

When reality was just tilted on an axis, a world continued to spin. This is me.

If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.

You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.

Most calves used by the dairy industry have their horns BURNED or GOUGED out of their heads.

I am calm most of the time.

The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art

Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed.

This day I breathed first: time is come round, And where I did begin there shall I end; My life is run his compass.