By the time we've made it, we've had it.

People who never get carried away should be.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.

By the time we've made it, we've had it.

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

The best vision is insight.

If you never budge, don't expect a push.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.

It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.

Presence is more than just being there.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

Men who never get carried away should be.

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

To measure the man, measure his heart.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.

If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.

My Birthday What a different sound that word had in my youthful ear.

Blaming destiny is a poor out for those who dont reach desired destinations.

Compliment others on the virtues they have and theyre not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they dont have.

Personal Confidential. Letters so marked should be. When the contents are only printed matter though the mini frauder succeeds in sowing ill will ire.

It is unfortunate we cant buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.

Diversity the art of thinking independently together.

I made my money the old fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died.

If you have a job without aggravations you dont have a job.