There are no free lunches on welfare.
Teams are successful when they are focused, have a short cycle time, and are supported by the executives.
Motivate them, train them, care about them and make winners out of them. We know if we treat our employees right, they’ll treat the customers right. And if customers are treated right, they’ll come back.
The four most important words in the English language are, “What do you think?” Listen to your people and learn.
If customers are treated right, they’ll come back.
Ninety percent of our managers started in the hourly ranks or started in the lower ranks.
We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all.
History balances the frustration of ‘how far we have to go’ with the satisfaction of ‘how far we have come.’ It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.
The guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color. If both are not accorded the same protection, then it is not equal.
An orderly society cannot exist if every man may decide which laws he will obey.
Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for its correction not on the conscience of judges and juries but on the competition of other ideas.
Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white-separate and unequal.
I’ve always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.
Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing.
Wine to me is something that brings people together. Wine does promote conversation and promote civility, but it’s also fascinating. It’s the greatest subject to study. No matter how much you learn, every vintage is going to come at you with different factors that make you have to think again.
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
I believe that the responsibility of the winemaker is to take that fruit and get it into the bottle as the most natural and purest expression of that vineyard, of the grape varietal or blend, and of the vintage.
The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s.
Fettuccine Alfredo is dangerous for your health.
I’m a common-sense kind of guy.