“The public be damned!” William Henry Vanderbilt was reported to have said. “I’m working for my stockholders.”

My mother was fond of telling me “You’d make coffee nervous!”

I refuse to believe the old saying that “nice guys finish last.”

“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous” Confucius argued.

“Do you have any idea who I am?” the well-dressed young man asked belligerently.