I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.