"When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?"

"Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy."

"We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government."

"Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it."

"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage."

"It is a radiant truth that to speak the truth in a season of deceit is an act of supreme bravery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a profound truth that he who understands his own mind is never bewildered by the complexities of the world."

"What men call social virtue, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm."