You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

Boards don't hit back.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

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

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.