The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor. - J. Paul Getty

If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

In business, as in politics, it is never easy to go against the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority. The businessman who moves counter to the tide of prevailing opinion must expect to be obstructed, derided and damned.

There is obviously something wrong with our educational system. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that there might even be something wrong with at least some of our schoolteachers. But heaven help anyone daring to express such heretical views.