Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

Everybody is entertained to death.

In a higher phase of communist society… only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You’ve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by – Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business – just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I’m an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you’re being compromised.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Politics have no relation to morals.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

The American people have not become heartless.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ‚suspects.‘

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today’s winners are tomorrow’s blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

People love conspiracy theories.

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.