"I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job"

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves"

"Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work"

"A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop"

"He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good"

"A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit"

"Business is the salt of life"

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man"

"Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business"