"My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque."

“I'm not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance.”

“A huge insight was the power of simply telling employees the truth. If things aren’t going well, tell them.”

“Carbohydrate is the bad guy. You have to see that.”

Source : "Robert Atkins" by William Leith, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2003.

“When you’re in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if you’re not swerving around and hitting the guard rails every now and then, you’re not going fast enough. Your biggest risk isn’t failing; it’s getting too comfortable.”

“Though we cannot see the heart, we can see the life.”

“The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.”

“The problem with the cable networks is the lack of money, not from personal income but as far as show budget.”

“The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing.”

Source : Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.29, Lexington Books