The best way to beat'em out is to say nothing and jump quick.

People have marveled at the fact that I didn't start McDonalds until I was fifty-two years old and then I became a success overnight. But I was just like a lot of show business personalities who work away quietly at their craft for years, and then, suddenly, they get the right break and make it big. I was an overnight success all right, but thirty years is a long, long night.

The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer.

The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away