If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
The primary asset of any business is its organization.
Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.
If you don't take it for granted that the other man will do his job, you're not an executive.
I have won every argument I ever had with myself.
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.
You are always wanting miracles; but God sows miracles by handfuls under your feet, and yet you still have people who deny their existence.
Other people have all kinds of information about you that is invisible to you. How do you get feedback?
We stand on a great threshold in the human history of space exploration. If life is prevalent in our neighborhood of the galaxy, it is within our resources and technological reach to be the first generation in human history to finally cross this threshold, and to learn if there is life of any kind beyond Earth.
I'm always reading, and you learn a lot by reading. When I was twenty-five, I read a lot, but didn't have much reading behind me.