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.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

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

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

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

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

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

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