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.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

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

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

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