On Rockefeller and Gates

"Usually what happens, and it has happened with Rockefeller and it has now happened with Gates, is that, usually people who are great businessmen are fierce uncompromising types, and this is precisely why they succeed in the business sphere - because they have this almost messianic faith in what they're doing." Ron Chernow. Biographer of J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller Sr. on the Charlie Rose Show.

On Persistence

"Bertie, you have such perseverence, you're the bravest man I know. You'll make a bloody good king!" Lionel Logue, King George VI's Speech Therapist, on the oscar winning movie The King's Speech.