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

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

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

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

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

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

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

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

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

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