None of my other investments give me the joy that autographs do because they make me feel that I am holding a piece of history in my hands.
One often reads about the art of conversation-how it's dying or what's needed to make it flourish, or how rare good ones are. But wouldn't you agree that the infinitely more valuable rara avis [rare bird] is a good listener.
When you don't understand, it's sometimes easier to look like you do.
Thinkers perish, thoughts don't.
You can't fool the mirror-what you see is what you are.
Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they're not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don't have.
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
Re raising kids: Love, without discipline, isn't.
At today's prices for medicines, doctors and hospitals-if the latter are available at any price-only millionaires can afford to be hurt or sick and pay for it. Very few people want socialized medicine in the U.S. But pressure for it is going to appear with the same hurricane force as the demand for pollution control if the medicine men and hospital operators don't take soon some Draconian measures... At the present rate of doctor fees and hospital costs under Medicare and Medicaid plans [taxpayers] are shovelling in billions with nothing but escalation in sight.
Looking the part helps get the chance to fill it. But if you fill the part, it matters not if you look it.
Advice: It's more fun to give than to receive.
A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.
Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.
Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.
Authority's for sharing only when the sharer is sure of his (or hers).
There's one post-Christmas chore I love-writing thank-you letters.... Lots of companies for many reasonable reasons, I guess, have a policy against sending even Christmas cards, never mind things, at Christmastime. But our clan gets a big kick out of opening the Warner-Lambert box containing an assortment of their wares; we argue over which of the boys is to get the Union Oil Co. necktie [and] all the holiday long we play the marvelous Christmas music sent by Goodyear.... None of these things means that Forbes or Forbeses have been had. But all of us like being thought of.
The ultimate high: A man's abilities equaling his opinion of'em.
Those carried away by power are soon carried away.
When profit is unshared, it's less likely to grow greater.
If you can read and don't, you're dumb.
Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
An inadequate chief executive officer's time at the top is always too long no matter how short.
If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
People who never get carried away should be.
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