Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Great things come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup of soup, and a good idea or two. No martinis.
Source: In The Executives Quotation Book, ed. by James Charlton, 1993.
-- T Boone Pickens, (May 22 1928-2019), US businessman; He became an oil magnate as the founder and president of Mesa Petroleum Co; a descendant of Daniel Boone.