“Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.”

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men – the man he is and the man he wants to be.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young.

Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.

The good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Business is always interfering with pleasure – but it makes other pleasures possible.

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.

An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.

Few of us get anything without working for it.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else’s position.

Worry about tomorrow steals the joy from today.

Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.

Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.

Discipline is the servant of inspiration.

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.