The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

I come from great stock. I didn't come from money. My parents both worked really hard to keep food on the table and give my sister and me opportunities to play sports and see what we were good at.

You look at marketing: everything that's happening in marketing is digitized. Everything that's happening in finance is digitized. So pretty much every industry, every function in every industry, has a huge element that's driven by information technology. It's no longer discrete.

All our wealth and all our export power has also come by the fact that other nations were willing to see us. This is very important.

Money comes and goes. But when you look back on your career, you have be able to answer to yourself, 'Did I make the most of my time on earth?'