I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support,...

In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don’t want to be a tennis player.

Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation’s seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of...

Wherever modern translations of marked excellence were already in existence efforts were made to secure them for the Library, but in a number of instances copyright could not be obtained.

What I’m saying is that there are bargains right now, there are stocks right now that if you’re shrewd enough, you will be able to buy them at the opening today and I you’ll make...

It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.

Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the...

That got us started on revenue sharing, and we couldn’t have done it without all the teams.

Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.

It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially – like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.

Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country’s peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.

I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away.

Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

I think that I could have been take apart if the bear market continued, but I waited three years before I felt the bear market was over and I was right.

The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content.

We got to know the competition very well. In the ’50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.

Personally, I just got one of these Vonage IP phones. It’s actually pretty cool. It comes with one of these Cisco ATA routers where you just plug an analog handset in.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

If we are all in agreement on the decision – then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some...

The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own problems. We stay healthier and thereby live longer.

I would, without any hesitation, shoot a violent criminal again.

Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is test. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Happy is harder than money. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy hasn’t got money.

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

I was never really a big presence in the home.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

The mutual fund industry provided the money for Intel and Motorola and Hewlett-Packard to crush the competitors.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that’s always been my philosophy.

We could see that he was a charismatic guy who jumps over the moon and is very competitive, but nobody could have predicted what he would become to our culture.

The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.

If you don’t have a refinery operating, it’s hard to use oil that’s available.

Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.

While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why.

Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy – citizens devoted to the democratic ideals –...

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped.

It’s easy in music to tell what’s good. It’s hard to tell what’s bad.

Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don’t do them to others, ever.

My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but because I wanted to make a difference on issues I feel passionate about.

And, strangely, this one of the few things in life that the third, the latter, the buy with our eyes closed has actually done better than everybody else.

You have a class of investors and you have a class of speculators. The speculators historically haven’t been big enough to cause the investors to doubt the long-term vision of stock.

My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.

This is America’s Team and we are confident this outstanding group of athletes will make our country proud.