Sloan Wilson

“The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly mobile group of people. They're not like the people that want to be shopkeepers forever, have always been shopkeepers and want always to be shopkeepers. These people mostly are insulted by being called middle class.”

“Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.”

“When it comes to sending my children to college, I want the best education. It's the only thing I'm really leaving them - a good education.”

“I don't have any contempt for the men who have to have jobs and have to commute and have to pay the mortgage and have to get their kids an education. To me, that's the backbone of America, to coin a phrase.”