“A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.”

Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.

True life lies in laughter, love and work.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.

Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.

Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.

In business for yourself, but not by yourself.

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

Look after the customer and the business will take care of itself.

You’re only as good as the people you hire.

We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.

There’s a lot more future in hamburgers than in baseball.

If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

You must perfect every fundamental of your business if you expect it to perform well.