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Except for in politics, no one likes to follow an idea without a firm base to walk on.

Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.

As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.

If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.

When it comes to Vought, or any corporate outfit really, all that counts to them is profit. They send their kids on planes built by the lowest bidder. They travel on the fuckin' things themselves. Company jets or first class, they still go on 'em. Safety costs. Money's God.

Most of the masses still believe in magic, you know. Spells. Potions. It's a big business, I am told.

Orozco's despair was not just in finding himself poor, but in discovering that effort, honest intentions, and gentlemanly status had nothing to do with sucess in a commercial economy.

When the Great Fire of London destroyed most of the medieval city in 1666, Christopher Wren was invited to design a new one. Within days, he had drawn up an elegant grid of broad boulevards leading to majestic squares, but it came to nothing - the existing landowners wanted things as they had been.

Internet marketing entrepreneurs have truly opened my eyes to just how important a quick turnaround time can be. Often times, an interview they conduct with me today is online by the next morning. The interviewee is then able to start making money less than 24 hours after the initial interview.

Your culture is the birthplace of your brand.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist, and you will sweep war from the earth.

Rather than justice for all, we are evolving into a system of justice for those who can afford it. We have banks that are not only too big to fail, but too big to be held accountable.

The American Medical Association operating from a platform of negative vigilance presents no solutions but busily fights each change and then loudly supports it against the next proposal.

Lending war equipment is a good deal like lending chewing gum. You don't want it back.

You make obstacle courses and hurricanes, I make T-shirt slogans.

Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.

Wall Street has too much wealth and political power.

What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle.

The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.