"Every morning, I get up and look through the 'Forbes' list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work"

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Genius is pain.

"Cogito ergo I'm right and you're wrong."

The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.

Wishing without work is like fishing without bait.

Do not seek death; death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

You cannot see the wood for the trees.

Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.

It is not enough that I should succeed. Others must fail.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Why be a man when you can be a success?

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

We are what we pretend to be.

Or you or I must yield up his life to Ahrimanes. I would rather it were you. I should have no hesitation in sacrificing my own life to spare yours, but we take stock next week, and it would not be fair on the company.

All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry up is not nailed down.

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hopes for the human condition is a fool.

There has been a little distress selling on the stock exchange.

A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the Universe, "the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."

An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.

Let me assure you that to us here at First National, you're not just a number. Youre two numbers, a dash, three more numbers, another dash and another number.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

What soon grows old? Gratitude.

Whatever occurs from love is always beyond good and evil.

XI: If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off. XII: I

Neckties strangle clear thinking.

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

If you wish to be happy for one hour, get drunk. If you wish to be happy for three days, get married. If you wish to be happy for a month, kill your pig and eat it. If you wish to be happy forever, learn to fish.

Innovation is hard to schedule.

Things are more like they are today than they ever were before.

Small is beautiful.

I hate dying.

The philosopher's treatment of a question is like the treatment of an illness.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him.

Work is the crab grass in the lawn of life.

The world wants to be deceived.

One good turn deserves another.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work.

If men are not afraid to die, it is of no avail to threaten them with death. If men live in constant fear of dying, And if breaking the law means a man will be killed, Who will dare to break the law? There is always an official executioner. If

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

Knowledge is power.

What one fool can do, another can.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

He who fears the unknown may one day flee from his own backside.

The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.

A good name lost is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Two wrongs are only the beginning.

Reality is bad enough, why should I tell the truth?

There's no such thing as an original sin.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Plastic... Aluminum... These are the inheritors of the Universe! Flesh and Blood have had their day... and that day is past!

The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence.

If a man has a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

If what they've been doing hasn't solved the problem, tell them to do something else.

Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood and field in a winter night for something to satisfy his hunger. Notwithstanding cold and hounds and traps, his race survives

Of all men's miseries, the bitterest is this: to know so much and have control over nothing.

In childhood a woman must be subject to her father; in youth to her husband; when her husband is dead, to her sons. A woman must never be free of subjugation.

Our business in life is not to succeed but to continue to fail in high spirits.

Too much of everything is just enough.

Rome was not built in one day.

It's easier to take it apart than to put it back together.

The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions.

The idea there was that consumers would bring their broken electronic devices, such as television sets and VCR's, to the destruction centers, where trained personnel would whack them (the devices) with sledgehammers. With their devices thus permanent

It's very glamorous to raise millions of dollars, until it's time for the venture capitalist to suck your eyeballs out.

Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Many hands make light work.

I know on which side my bread is buttered.

Never buy from a rich salesman.

Don't get mad, get even.

Ask not for whom the Bell tolls, and you will pay only the station-to-station rate.

The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.

I know not how I came into this, shall I call it a dying life or a living death?

A witty saying proves nothing.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

The [Ford Foundation] is a large body of money completely surrounded by people who want some.

In every hierarchy the cream rises until it sours.

The executioner is, I hear, very expert, and my neck is very slender.

Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.

Business will be either better or worse.

If happiness is in your destiny, you need not be in a hurry.

Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.

Lookie, lookie, here comes cookie...

When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.

(1) Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood. (2) If your stomach antagonizes you, pacify it with cool thoughts. (3) Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. (4) Go very lightly on the vices, such as carrying on in society, as

Whom the mad would destroy, first they make Gods.

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money.