"I could as easily bail out the..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.”

“My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.”

“Do I not damage my enemies after i make them my close friends?”

“The key to greatness is to look for people's potential and spend time developing it.”

“Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed that when it is needful to be otherwise you may be able to change to the opposite qualities.”

“In most cases, those who want power probably shouldn't have it, those who enjoy it probably do so for the wrong reasons, and those who want most to hold on to it don't understand that it's only temporary.”

“I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.”

“I always say that in investing you want to buy stock in a company that has a business that's so good that an idiot can run it, because sooner or later one will. We have a country like that.”

“Sometimes, I think my most important job as a CEO is to listen for bad news. If you don't act on it, your people will eventually stop bringing bad news to your attention and that is the beginning of the end.”