He takes a thing in as the ocean mouths a river.

If I had had men like that to deal with all my life, what a different ledger I'd be balancing now! Descartes, Kant, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hume, Hegel--he has an ear for them all.

That is the intellectual side of him; and in business"-- he threw up a hand--"there he views the landscape from the mountain-top.

He has vision, strategy, executive.

He is Napoleon and Anacreon in one.