The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one..

Victory is sweetest when you've know defeat. Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. You pay for everything, even including speaking your….

It's much more profitable to sell investing advice than to follow it..

When you don't understand, it's sometimes easier to look like you do..

The richest person in the world - in fact. All the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot availab….

Trying to impress others does - usually in quite the opposite way..

To seduce most anyone, ask for and listen to his opinion..

Several weeks of summer vacation in the Thirties I spent working at $15 a week in the FORBES office.... I worked in the mail cage, where envelopes we….

The smart ones ask when they don't know. And, sometimes, when they do..

If the shoe fits you're lucky..

Occasionally indulging in a do-nothing day is more than worth the price..

Generous gestures yield the most when that isn't their purpose..

Meanness demeans the demeaner far more than the demeaned..

It doesn't take much of a rule to measure a mean man..

Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they're not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don't have..

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful..

The ultimate high: A man's abilities equaling his opinion of'em..

On New York's Palm restaurant: Their steaks are often good, but the lobsters-with claws the size of Arnold Schwarzenegger's forearms-are as glazed a….

After the fact, our hearts always go out to the fallen Goliaths. Yet we invariably root for their Davids. Until they're winners..

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time..

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it..