"Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don't have enough of it, you're out of the game. But if you think your life is about breathing, you're really missing something."

“Thus hath it been sent down from the heaven of the Will of your Lord, the Lord of Revelation.”

“I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach.”

“The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.”

Source : Quoted in Reader's Digest, Nov. 1939 See Calonne 1; Nansen 1; Trollope 3

“Jenson Button is the real deal. It just takes the right environment, the right time - don't doubt he has all the talents to win Grands Prix and challenge for championships.”

“Why don't those damn oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe a flag with a gas pump on it.”

Source : Smedley D. Butler (2003). “War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier”, Feral House

“Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something and it doesn't work and it takes confidence to say we haven't failed yet. Ultimately you become commercially successful.”

“I have always found thick woods a little intimidating, for they are so secret and enclosed. You may seem alone but you are not, for there are always eyes watching you. All the wildlife of the woods, the insects, birds, and animals, are well aware of your presence no matter how softly you may tread, and they follow your every move although you cannot see them.”

Source : Thalassa Cruso (1990). “The Gardening Year”, Lyons Press

“I don't think that coming from a privileged background makes you this monster who doesn't feel things.”