Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances calculate the risks involved estimate our ability to deal with them and make our plans with confidence.

The first qualification for success in my view is a strong work ethic.

Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.

Profits are the ultimate measure of how efficiently we provide customers with the best products for their needs. Profits are required to survive and grow.

We have a tremendous investment in facilities for (internal combustion engines, transmissions, and axles) and I can't see throwing them away just because the electric car doesn't emit fumes.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

A generation ago there were a thousand men to every opportunity, while today there are a thousand opportunities to every man.

In seeking to serve social needs because it makes good business sense to do so, a corporation is doing what it knows how to do best.

Obsolescence is the very hallmark of progress.

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

A good relationship with our children is the ultimate comfort we have while dying.

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.

To keep God at the center of one's life requires frequent renewal of power through prayer.

The world is too serious. To get mad at a work of art-because maybe somebody, somewhere is blowing his stack over what I've done-is like getting mad at a hot fudge sundae.

I'm more worried about you," she said. "You and trouble..." "yeah." She heard the smile in his voice. "We're like that.

What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?

I never try to follow a trend or fashion.

It makes a difference who the treasury secretary is.