“To an old leader will be born an idiot heir, weak both in knowledge and in war.”

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

I believe in God, family, and McDonald’s. And in the office, that order is reversed.

To be successful, you must be daring, be first and be different.

If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean.

Luck is a dividend of sweat.

I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night.

I guess to be an entrepreneur you have to have a large ego, enormous pride and an ability to inspire others to follow your lead.

I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.

We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.

If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.

We have an obligation to give something back to the community that gives so much to us.

If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

I never considered my dreams wasted energy; they were invariably linked to some form of action. When I dreamed about having a lemonade stand, for example, it wasn’t long before I set up a lemonade stand.

From the calm morning, the end will come when of the dancing horse the number of circles will be nine.

That’s the name of the game. Pleasing the customer. If we ever lose sight of that fact, we’ve lost the ball game.

Extremism is so easy. You’ve got your position, and that’s it. It doesn’t take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.

An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

Someone needs to take my phone when i’m drunk because I am a fucking idiot.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

I try to invest in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.