Howard Hughes

His ears made him look like a taxicab with both doors open.

Sometimes I truly fear that I am losing my mind. And if I did it it would be like flying blind.

I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire. Goddamit, I'm a billionaire.

Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap.

Never make a decision. Let someone else make it and then if it turns out to be the wrong one, you can disclaim it, and if it is the right one you can abide by it.

She'll do better than this, Odie. She'll do three-sixty-five; I just know it.

I have learned you cannot fulfil a great purpose like the building of Nevada and make ice-cream on the front porch every night too.

No! Never check an interesting fact!

I'm going to turn this gal into a sex symbol.

I sleep. In this room. In the dark. I have a place I can sleep. I have a chair. That's just beautiful. Oh, yeah. I like the desert. It's hot there in the desert, but it's clean. It's clean.

Do not fraternize with persons outside the office. Do not engage in long, unnecessary conversations with secretaries. Be sure that all confidential and secret material from wastepaper baskets is properly destroyed and burned. Tell your wife as little as possible.

first soak and remove the label, and then brush the cylindrical part of the can over and over until all particles of dust, pieces of paper label, and, in general, all sources of contamination have been removed.

I'm not a paranoid, I'm a realist.

I like to work, I like to be busy, and I've got a lot of things to do.

If I can't do it better, I don't do it at all.

Money is no object. It cannot be. It's only a tool.

I'm a man who just wants to be left alone.

I have no desire to be remembered as a playboy. I want to be remembered as a serious businessman.

I have never in my life made a business deal in which I did not have the conviction that I was making money for the other fellow as well as for myself.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a guy who's willing to work hard.