People want economy, and they'll pay any price to get it.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.

The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

There's nothing special about this place, he thinks. We all forget. Then we forget what we forgot. And that's how we survive.

Education opens eyes to see, feel, and enjoy the beauty of life in a different way.

You can be straight as a gun barrel theologically, and as empty as one spiritually.

Any penalty - I've told you a hundred times - can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.

Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.

[Suggesting an epitaph for herself:] This is on me.

I really can't stand any more to pay for a burst of animation when someone comes in for drinks with a depressed and low-keyed next day, in which I have to go around on my hands and knees.

People aren’t photographing for history any more. It’s for immediate gratification. If you’re photographing to share an image, you’re not photographing to keep it.

The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.