"As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big."

"I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. 'You're fired' is a very strong term."

"It's always good to be underestimated."

"The first thing the secretary types is the boss."

"A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business."

"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."

"It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition."

"I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age."