Great captains of industry are as rare as great generals

If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.

The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. . . . I call C the Forgotten Man.

Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.

He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.

If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee.

We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.

The State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man

There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing!

They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.

Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.

I love 40's-60's fashion because it suits the type of figure that I have the most, so that's what I always go for. I won't change!

Bringing production to a festival can be tricky sometimes.

I loved the hood and still love the hood but I had to realize like Ra you a rapper now you're in the public eye.

Whatever it is, it's better in the wind.

Do you have to feel something for it to be real or mean anything? Can you touch your dreams, taste your imagination.