The conformist is not born. He is made. I believe the brainwashing process begins in the schools and colleges. - J. Paul Getty

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.

It shouldn't be very difficult for anyone to resist the temptation to force himself into the pattern of the structured man. One needs only to remember that a groove may be safe — but that, as one wears away at it, the groove becomes first a rut and finally a grave.

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.