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

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

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

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

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

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

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

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

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