It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can’t be counted upon to provide it.

It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its...

These will be fabulous investments and will make millions of more people rich.

If it’s not growing, it’s going to die.

Don’t bottom fish.

The ascent of the hills (for they do not deserve the name of mountains) was so gradual as to cause but little fatigue in travelling over them.

I never lied to a person in my life; my kids didn’t, either.

Kids can amuse themselves with almost anything.

I know if I was a woman I wouldn’t want to be a member of an organization that’s mostly men.

I would rather be respected than elected.

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.

The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.

To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they’ll say, ‘God, he said exactly what I was thinking.’ And when they begin to respect you, they’ll follow you to the death.

I mean I’m not smarter than the market, but I can recognize a good tape and a bad tape. I recognize when it’s right and when it’s wrong and that’s what my strength is.

But it shows some of the hunger there is for user expression and interest in the most popular of the blogs, in sharing and reading.

It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.

Because Microsoft seems to sometimes not trust customer choice, they salt XP with all these little gizmos and trap doors to get people to try Microsoft stuff. But the reality is that we’re downloading more...

My style is to keep folks in place who are good managers and want to win.

If you feel like it’s difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the...

No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.

Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.

I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

If you don’t understand that you work for your mislabeled ‘subordinates,’ then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

The president said that this is not removing a mole. You know, removing a mole, that’s an outpatient sort of an operation. This was removing a cancer, removing a cancer takes more time.

We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.

Microsoft was not a mysterious, strange entity. You put your PC on and there’s an ad for them.

Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one.

Go for a business that any idiot can run – because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

Sports is like rock ‘n’ roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.

We really believe that Walt Disney is a very able company with great depth and a great set of franchises.

We’re going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.

We love our business. We have never been more enthusiastic about cable and its future.

When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way – you suddenly have a new...

In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.

The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.

Good copy can’t be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You’ve got to believe in the product.

I’m Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It’s not arrogance. It’s the truth.

It won’t do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations...

Nobody motivates today’s workers. If it doesn’t come from within, it doesn’t come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves.

The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made...

We typically hear numbers that there are 34 million households that are in stocks in some form. Well, I say that what’s occurred is if you have a job in this country, you’re in stocks.

There’s no good idea that can’t be improved on.

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

I did not deal well with the politicians. I tend to tell people that when they are full of crap, that they are full of crap.

I want to be remembered as a guy who tried his best and did his best.

Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor,...