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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.