“People seem to listen to you more when you’ve got a bagful of cash.”   Thomas J. Donohue, president of The U.S. Chamber of Commerce.  From a story in The New York Times, noted by City Ethics.

Throughout his career, Donohue has demonstrated a talent for distilling fact, wisdom, irony and humor into plain-speaking quips. My all-time favorite:  “Sometimes I don’t know what I think until I hear what I have to say.”