wisdom Quotes

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: 'Oh, that's just the way things are done around here.' Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

When in doubt, don't.

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.