Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

The best way to supervise your men is from their reports that they make out. 

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.  

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility. 

There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.