"You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety"

"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"

"Prestige is the shadow of money and power"

"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"

"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it"

"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"

"You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money"