Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there. |
You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift. |
I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily. |
The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations. |
You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred. |
I can afford to say what I wish. |
I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them. |
I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life. |
A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature. |
Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation. |
What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career. |
In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people. |
I've never been one to bet on the weather. |
Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience. |
Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich. |
Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses. |
My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see. |
I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist. |
Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock. |
The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances. |