The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.
Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you’re just sitting still?
Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom.
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
Once you have made it, you will understand that any business is limited in the challenges it offers. You will want and need other games to play, so you will look for other ventures to hold your interest.
To build wealth today, you must be in your own business.
A sense of thrift is essential to success in business. The businessman must discipline himself to practice economy whenever possible, in his personal life as well as his business affairs.
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or ‘get rich’ in business by being a conformist.
I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
Wealth is only a benefit of the game of money. If you win, the money will be there.
In business, as in politics, it is never easy to go against the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority. The businessman who moves counter to the tide of prevailing opinion must expect to be obstructed, derided and damned.
I find all this money a considerable burden.
If you look after the pennies, the dollars will look after themselves.
There may be some substitute for hard facts, but if there is, I have no idea what it can be.
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
There are no safeguards that can protect the emotional investor from himself.
I have no complex about wealth. I have worked very hard for my money; producing things people need.
Some people find oil. Others don’t.
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.