"By the time we've made it, we've had it."
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
"Men who never get carried away should be."
"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."
"If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job."
"The more sympathy you give, the less you need."
"Presence is more than just being there."
"People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too."
"It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history."
"Failure is success if we learn from it."
"Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are."
"It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it."
"Diversity: the art of thinking independently together."
"The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy."
"People who never get carried away should be."
"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."
"If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it."
"Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do."
"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."
"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."
"Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same."
"Let your children go if you want to keep them."
"Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time."
"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."
"It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem."
