“The essential question is not, "How busy are you?' but 'What are you busy at?' 'Are you doing what fulfills you?”

“If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, "What's your business?" In Macon they ask, "Where do you go to church?" In Augusta they ask your grandmother's maiden name. But in Savannah the first question people ask you is "What would you like to drink?”

“In business, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.”

“Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing but nobody else does.”

“Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.”

“I used to use business to make money. But I've learned that business is a tool. You can use it to support what you believe in.”