“Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) wasthat there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoymentof life and people”

“But the most valuable lesson he taught me was this: Every day we get older, and some of us get wiser, but there's no end to our evolution. We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us.”

“My father taught me the most important thing about wisdom—that I was going to have to acquire it from other people. So without teaching me, he taught me how to learn from others.”

“My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.”

“Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the most valuable things in life are not things!”

“I think Jay is in import and export business as his cards say, but he finally found that the second most valuable commodity today is information.""And?""The most valuable?""People with information," I suggested.”